and now something completely different and opposite than the previous post.. I'm aware that in next few lines I will tarnish my rough reputation and will lost a lot of my hard earned crust punk points, hahah, as I'm sure not many of you would believe that I was having this short screamo or maybe better to say emotional hardcore, how we used to call it back then, phase during high school while bands like Undone, Tidal, Outre, Anomie, etc were occupied my mind and ear drums a lot, which later in the beginning of the internet era probably led to my interest in some neocrust outfits like Ekkaia, Madame Germen, Deszcz, or in recent time Morrow for example.. then I completely lost the touch with such genres until few years back (well, not actually few, more like 9 or 10, but who is even counting anymore..) when two old friends founded Mališa Bahat and they totally surprises me, 1st by selection of genre and then by how good and quality they were in it.. they had some pretty long pause and just the other day when I was wondering what is happening with them I saw announcement about live show in Belgrade which will happen by the end of this month and I have realized that something is cooking and few days later, out of nowhere, new album is published on their bandcamp, awesome!..
this is actually their first proper full length, so far they only had split EP with Czech comrades Zmar and 3 tapes (demo, one split with Lack Of Soul and one as compilation of all their previous stuff which was released on for the genre important and big label Zegema Beach Records)..
on this new album they offer us even 10 brand new explosive songs, they are now playing more with dual vocals in some songs, there is more this spoken words parts here and there and all tracks are different enough to not become boring.. I would point out the last song "Lovers. Loners. Losers." as the best to me, probably because it's more similar and has this energy of their previous stuff..
production and mastering are superb here, even a little to good and clean for my taste and even if I'm not an expert in the genre, on first few listens it seems they kinda went more in some technical direction which I'm sure screamo lovers will appreciate but I must admit I like previous releases more, which were simpler and here I miss this full unstoppable outburst of emotions which they was having on previous releases.. or maybe I just need some time with it for everything to settle in its place, I don't know.. what I do know is that they are great in what they are doing and like I've said before if they are from US or France for example they would be more known and appreciated in screamo circles (although they already have few euro tours, even Singapore/Malaysia one and appearances on Fluff and Miss the Stars festivals behind them, so...), also one of above mentioned friends is playing drums and again with this release he proves that he is one of the best domestic drummers here and even wider..
lyrics on this album, also like music, evolved and are now more lengthy and "complicated" and as expected for the genre, more of personal nature and the whole album seems like it's conceived as conceptual and with a story to tell..
outstanding cover art is made by Nadan Savran and it's just perfect for the release and looks amazing, merch with this design will be awesome as well and I can't wait for some.. for now this is available only in digital form on bandcamp, supposedly some tapes will be made first, then later if they find labels interested maybe some vinyl also.. so if you can or you know someone who can help with this, you know what to do..
until we'll be able to grab some physical release of this go check it on bandcamp..
