Urin: Afekt 7″

Description

Completely fucking mental raw D-Beat played by some of Berlin’s noisiest humans. Following up their pulverizing 2019 EP, URIN have turned up the mania, tweaked it out even further and afforded absolutely no room for silence whatsoever. After all SILENCE IS DEATH! “Afekt” is sure to leave you scratching what is left of your blown out dome.

150 copies on translucent red and 350 copies on black 72gr vinyl housed in a neon yellow risograph matchbook sleeve. Recorded by Sergio Gonzalez at Casa Rat Trap, Bogota. Mixed by Urin, Berlin. Mastered at Noise Room, Tokyo. Art by Stachu Szumski and Yana Abrasheva.

Our take: One night a few weeks ago, I was making dinner and had Life During Wartime playing in the background, as I often do. Life During Wartime introduces me to cool stuff I didnt know about all the time, but I cant remember another occasion when a track was so good I had to stop what I was doing and consult the show notes to figure out who the band was. Turns out it was a track from this latest EP from Germanys Urin. We really liked Urins first EP here at Sorry State (it was Record of the Week back in August 2019) and we were lucky enough to see them live on their last jaunt to the US, but none of that prepared me for Afekts ferocity. The sound is dense, knotty, and noisy punk that sounds like a piece of dying industrial equipment having a panic attack. While it exists in the same universe as the Kyushu-style noise punk we all know and love (Confuse, Swankys, Gai, etc.), its also different. The rhythms are knottier and the riffs (well, what you can make out of them), are more complex. While a lot of bands of this ilk are solely about the noise, there is ripping hardcore lurking at the core of Afekt. The noisy parts dominate, though, not just providing texture, but annihilating the more conventional punk sounds. Its chaotic in an over the top way, but theres still an electric sense of energy to the recording. (It doesnt hurt that Urin recorded at Bogotas Casa Rat Trap and mastered these tracks at Tokyos Noise Room, two establishments that know how to make a killer-sounding punk record.) Afekt is so abrasive that its likely to scare off all but the most hardcore, but those of us who treasure our D-Clone, Confuse, and Horrendous 3D records will have no problem finding space in our listening diets for this.