Careering along like a fully loaded semi-trailer that’s lost its brakes, the new single ‘Shallow Grave’ from Tasmanian sensations TEENS is a visceral cavalcade of guitars and melody ringing out like a chemically enhanced ghoul in chains. Guitars crash with a sound like fenders in a motorway pile up in a delivery that reaches a crescendo to a full stop then a civilisation-ending clatter of feedback. Be still my beating heart.
It’s thoroughly satisfying fare that is further enhanced by the accompanying single-shot music video, directed by Oli Potter, and filmed at the long-abandoned Willow Court asylum in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley, which adds a demented perfomance from the band.
If comparisons were to be made, TEENS joins bands like Shame and Idles with their committed delivery and unabashed fury mixed with cathartic joy:
‘Shallow Grave’ is unleashed today and available to download and stream via all the usual sites. It comes off their forthcoming album ‘Negative Energy’ through No Sleep Records/Psychedelic Salad Records set for release on 19 August and available to pre-order through the link below.
You can fittingly catch the band apparating during Dark Mofo which begins tomorrow, supporting The Peep Tempel at the Altar Bar on 15 June – see details below.
Feature Photograph: @ryanstangerrr
