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Drahla Bring Post-Punk to a New Generation With ‘Angeltape’: Album Review
With their second full-length, the U.K. quartet Drahla bring the post-punk sound purveyed by Gang of Four, Delta 5 and others fully into the present.
Over the years “post-punk” has become nearly as vague a term as “post-modern,” but it generally refers to a brittle, guitar-heavy sound with choppy rhythms as practiced by such late-‘70s British outfits as Public Image Ltd., Gang of Four, the Fall, Joy Division, This Heat and others. Drahla is not a new band — they began dropping singles in 2016, started leaning into post-punk a couple of years later and although their 2019 debut album, “Useless Coordinates,” is good, they’ve gotten a lot better. According to the press notes, the band faced some challenges during the pandemic that are reflected in the music in an unspecified way, but judging by the sound of “Angeltape,” they seem to have turned them into a positive.
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