GORILLA ANGREB - Live in New York - Tape - 2006

   Ever since I first heard the first anxious notes of "Astma" on a mix tape (from Anandi. Thanks!), I was instantly hooked on GORILLA ANGREB. They combined a guitar tone that seemed like it was culled directly from a Dangerhouse Records comp with darkly melodic bass lines and fierce vocals. And the drumming! The drumming was pounding and playing the sixteenth notes that make me want to smash my head through a wall. They hailed from Copenhagen, Denmark and were in bands you probably already love. I don't even know why I'm writing this part because this is a band that already has tons of information online and elsewhere.
  When I heard that they were playing their last show in Copenhagen back in 2007, I immediately looked up plane tickets. I was just about to buy them when a few different thoughts popped into my head: 1. I had never been to Europe. 2. I didn't know a single person in Copenhagen...or Denmark. 3. It was a ridiculous plan. 4. IF I followed through with that, I would be stuck living in Bloomington for yet another year saving up money and wishing that I could move away. It felt awful to miss their last show, but it felt better to get on a plane and leave Indiana for good less than a year later.
   This live tape was mailed to me a while back by my friend, Fil from DC. He was at this show, which was a house show in Brooklyn after they played a larger venue the same night with SUBHUMANS. Every song on here is great, but I'm not gonna lie to you. This show sounds like it was recorded on a walkman that was rejected from a thrift store and found in the dumpster. It also sounds as if a dog turd was taped over the microphone (Sorry Fil if you actually recorded this on something better than that). Still, did I listen to the whole thing? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Thoroughly.

From Fil "They were wasted and it was the best I ever saw them. Since it was the last show of their tour, they played at least one song they had been skipping to save her voice."

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If this is your first intro to the band, you should start with their 2003 EP instead.

More live recordings with better quality.

GORILLA ANGREB - Live on WFMU

GORILLA ANGREB - Live on KBOO

and if you want to send me their first demo, I'll send you my po box address.

NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS - Discography - Tape - 2006

   In 2006, my current best friend/confidante/life partner Anandi mailed me a mix tape that is probably the best mix tape I've ever received in my life. Alongside classic standards like THE CLASH and YE OLDE BUTTFUCK, I was introduced to bands I had never heard before (and grew to love) like HUL, GORILLA ANGREB and KNUGEN FALLER. There was another Danish band on the tape that I overlooked on the tape for a while, even though their song was excellent ("Secret Police"), just because I thought they were an older band. I was trying to find out about the newer bands that were exciting to me. One day at work, it hit me how good that song is and I looked up more info about the band. It turns out that they were a current band and they were born out of former projects like AMDI PETERSEN'S ARMI and the always outstanding YOUNG WASTENERS. I tracked down everything that I could by the band I was not disappointed.
   Even though their LP has this crazy flanger effect throughout the entire thing, it still has great, dismal songs on it, like "Rainy Day", which starts with the illuminating line "I stuffed myself with pills today. Doesn't seem to be working." Their lyrics cover aspects of war and don't seem to take a side on it, much like 80's bands that sang about nuclear war with no clear objective. I don't really know what else to tell you. I never got a chance to see them and I don't know much about them. I will tell you that I was walking around on a beautiful San Francisco day with my good friend Cinque once and we mutually decided that our day would be vastly improved if we went and sat in my dark room in a building at 7th and Market while drinking beer and blasting every song by this band. We were right. If you like driving, melodic, depressing, tragic punk with guitar hooks that will stick in your head for days, download this right now.

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If you want to order this tape from fucking Poland, it's still available from Trujaca Fala, who have released a lot of other great stuff as well. Check out BARAKA FACE JUNTA and SJU SVARA AR.