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New Vogue
New Vogue
Sound Salvation - 2018
Michael Panontin
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Damn! The kids sure can rock out these days.
On their debut cassette, New Vogue channel the ghosts of all those forgotten punk and post-punk bands that never really made it back in the day and thus sit buried under mountains of vinyl in the proverbial trash heap of history. Whether it was intentional or not, they have managed to exhume all that scything, amped-up and distorted guitar that lesser-known bands like Crass, Flux of Pink Indians or even UK Decay used to thrash their way through just as the seventies were sliding into the eighties.
The band is actually a four-piece live, with singer-guitarist Max taking centre-stage and bassist Chance, guitarist Cameron and drummer Taylor rounding things out in the backfield. But as Max told CM recently, "New Vogue initially started as a solo project. This cassette I recorded in my apartment in Montreal last March. Our bassist, Chance, was the only other musician I collaborated with during the recording session."
All six songs on New Vogue are pretty raunchy. Shorter tracks like 'Burnout' and the barely one-minute 'Parasite You Terror' are fast-acting and effective, as it were. But the longer 'Space Junk', which closes out the tape, tosses in a bit of synthesizer and even psychedelic guitar, portending perhaps more adventurous things to come.
If there is any quibble here, it is that this might have been better as a seven-inch EP. Otherwise, mission accomplished.
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New Vogue
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