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ETT - 027 - Rats Rest - Permanent Catastrophe EP

by Rats Rest

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    When it comes to timeless and catchy early 80s US punk sound in these fast and modern times of ours, Rats Rest from Kansas City could take a big part of the cake. If you like the old-school hardcore punk, melodic with a raspy fucked up voice, expressive vocals, mid paced drum-hitting going fast, heavy bass lines, catchy guitar works with a hard-rock attitude / playing, alongside lyric themes about depression, drugs and death, written with a personal view, then this is your new favourite band. I’m reminded of a depressed Marked Men, a bouncy No Hope For The Kids, or a street-punk-infused Leatherface as I spin these tunes. They get it pretty much right, from the well-sung vocals to the guitar solos that occurs over some moody, incessant bass-lines, its always super catchy! So put your sticky fingers on a copy of this and enjoy it!

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1.
an impossibly tiny thread through the bone of my forehead my heart could not push blood but i knew i wasn't dead and at the other end the impossible machine and a crowd of ugly men they will send it down the string and i don't know what they want from me unreasonable things bite through the plastic tube spraying blood into the room somehow moving down the hall then i slip and then i fall a stranger takes my hand and she helps me try to stand and she asks me if i can explain to her just who i am now i'm sitting in a chair she washes blood out of my hair oh yes, she wants me to stay she says it'll be okay but i can still hear that creeping sound oh yes, i know they're still around they got that thing pointed at my face and i gotta leave this place and i don't know if it's them or me supplying the power to the machine then my father came to hold me and he told me not to worry i would find a way even though the men were crazy and the machine so very deadly i would find a way to cut the string to be free
2.
looking out from the darkness and the shit keeps rolling on by grabbing hold of my brain and i keep falling it's past the point of shedding tears it ain't no use to sit and cry everybody knows the reason why in the parade of damaged people now it's the blind leading the screwed laughing or crying we keep falling another day goes by another species dies it ain't no use to sit and cry everybody knows the reason why gripped by this feeling this terrible urgency everything conceivable it's an aspect of the permanent catastrophe and it's killing me at the slightest provocation now my heart's skipping a beat one thoughtful gesture and i'm falling i see a light in you but it runs me through and all i can do is sit and cry everybody knows the reason why gripped by the feeling this terrible urgency everything is nothing and it burns inside of me gripped by this feeling this terrible urgency everything conceivable is an aspect of the permanent catastrophe it's killing me it's killing you it's killing we
3.
in the tangle of a thousand ugly tubes hanging from a rack was a button you could slowly push to make the blood die back and it boiled and it bubbled in the mouth of the fallen man so i pushed the plastic button like don't cry little maniac if you can the room began to fade away just points of light in empty space waiting for me it wasn't words that i heard just the blinding light of a crazy song blasting through my heart and i felt everything at once and i was moved faraway unafraid nothing to prove out there past mortality ego scattered to the wind unfettered by false reality we communicate again and i cursed the shit dimension and all its pointless suffering and i want so much to tell them but what the hell what the fuck could i say nobody believes anything anyway they burst into the bedroom where i laid awake in bed terrified in sunlight and i knew that he was dead i said don't cry please don't cry to this day i don't know why
4.
rolling with the crazies down the hill into the forest where all the trees have smiling faces and the wind comes blowing in a thousand singing voices to me it's all there is then the day came when the bitter wind came blowing in i could feel the whole world shrinking the savage images of the leaders' philosophy trapped inside now never to escape frozen with disbelief and standing beside myself it just can't be not just a sad little boy's dream didn't wanna see now there's a scared little boy's dream fermenting all the things that can't be realized and it takes up all of my time it just can't be not just a sad little boy's dream everyone can see i got a scared little boy's dream trapped inside never to escape to guide me when everything's at stake you won't find me begging to please the leaders' philosophy

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When it comes to timeless and catchy early 80s US punk sound in these fast and modern times of ours, Rats Rest from Kansas City could take a big part of the cake. If you like the old-school hardcore punk, melodic with a raspy fucked up voice, expressive vocals, mid paced drum-hitting going fast, heavy bass lines, catchy guitar works with a hard-rock attitude / playing, alongside lyric themes about depression, drugs and death, written with a personal view, then this is your new favourite band. I’m reminded of a depressed Marked Men, a bouncy No Hope For The Kids, or a street-punk-infused Leatherface as I spin these tunes. They get it pretty much right, from the well-sung vocals to the guitar solos that occurs over some moody, incessant bass-lines, its always super catchy! So put your sticky fingers on a copy of this and enjoy it!

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released December 25, 2014

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