Giglinger – Red 7” EP (King Penguin)
After getting through a pile of poorly-realized garage/noise/punk singles, this Giglinger single straight up slapped me in the face. Not because the music was any great shakes – seems this Finnish band has been around for decades, releasing a 7” every few years and otherwise managing a quiet existence, and this latest offering comes off past sojourns into faster, more industrial sounding fare (an earlier EP set such expectations by advertising that all songs were at 200 beats per minute, which, when you use a drum machine as these folks do, you can make happen). Actually, the music is decent, Euro-minded post-punk, but this fucker is LOUD. Really clear, biting layers of guitar, played with force and determination, drove this one right into my skull. Once there, not much else happens, but it’s nice to hear a band that has some semblance of control over what they want to be, and doesn’t seem to have any aspirations beyond releasing records. Red paper sleeve mounted in a black die-cut one. A tiny bit more info is available at the following URL: (http://www.giglinger.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
