Peace de Rsistance: Bits and Pieces 12″ (UK pressing)

Description

Moses Brown of Texas punk bands Institute and Glue released his first cassette under the name Peace de Rsistance a solo project where he plays all the instruments in October 2020. That cassette found Brown bouncing his growing songwriting chops off the fuzz-drenched Zamrock sound of Paul Ngozi, Witch, and Amanaz. However, Bits and Pieces Peace de Rsistances first full-length and first vinyl release has a wider vista. Brown describes the sound as demented glam rock, and while you can hear remnants of the Zamrock influence in the sinuously melodic fuzz guitar, the more pertinent frames of reference are Diamond Dogs -era Bowie, 70s Lou Reed, and Iggys The Idiot and Lust for Life. Bits and Pieces recalls those records potent combination of artistic ambition, street-level rock and roll swagger, and pop charm, but filtered through the DIY punk aesthetics of Browns previous work. Lyrically, the album documents life on the fringes in a hyper-surveilled 2020s America, with songs like Dont 1099 Me, We Got the Right to Be Healthy, and Exploitation wrenching plainspoken poetry from an existence that will be all too familiar to anyone at odds with capitalism. After nine timeless art-rock songs, Bits and Pieces lets us downgently with Sitting in Disguise. This motorik-inspired instrumental offers a rickety, dilapidated update of Neu!s seamless futurism, implying that the only appropriate response to our predicament is to keep moving forward. -Sorry State