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YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds review – a singular spin on funky NYC post-punk
Scene-stealing fills from drummer Sam Pickard send you toppling through the foursome’s thrilling, fresh debut
The spirit of funky, far-out post-punkers such as This Heat, A Certain Ratio and 23 Skidoo charges through the thrilling debut album by this New York quartet, knocking over furniture and ruffling everyone’s hair up. Sometimes he fidgets at a high tempo, focusing on drum rims and tight hi-hats, to make indie-disco tracks for salsa-quality dancers; slower numbers such as Tear Pusher have an almost boom-bap hip-hop sensibility. The other half of the rhythm section isn’t bass guitar but synths: Jack Tobias’s playing on Iron Feet and Sickle Walk sounds like the serendipitously tuneful machinations of a lift shaft or slowing locomotive.
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