Stream Deaf Club's sarcastic, chaotic hardcore song "But Does It Fart?"
Deaf Club — the chaotic hardcore band fronted by the prolific Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids, Retox, etc), alongside members of ACxDC, The Manx, Squid Pisser, and more — released their killer debut LP Productive Disruption earlier this year, and as mentioned, they’re already set to put out a new EP, Bad Songs Forever, on 5/6 via Pearson’s Three One G label (pre-order). The EP includes three original songs and an awesome cover of the Pixies‘ “Broken Face,” and we’re now premiering its third single, “But Does It Fart?”
“The title is a rhetorical question,” Justin tells us. “I know the answer. Humans have become increasingly great at farting things out into the world. This action probably started with religion. An example since we are coming up on Easter, a day where people celebrate a dead guy coming back to life while there is a rabbit that delivers eggs to children. Seems fairly asinine to me, and always has. That was the best those mother fuckers could come up with? See, they farted that whole idea out there. Now we have dicks like Tucker Carlson farting things out there hourly to a lot of gullible people, who all think Easter makes sense. Deaf Club is clearly on the wrong planet.”
As you can probably already guess, the song is dripping with sneering sarcasm, and it’s also the kind of batshit, discordant hardcore song that Justin Pearson and his peers have been churning out for decades. It rips, and you can stream it below, along with the two previous singles (including the Pixies cover). Deaf Club also have upcoming West Coast/Southwest tour dates (including shows with Napalm Death, METZ, John Waters, and more) and those are listed below too.
In related news, The Locust’s New Erections is getting a 15th anniversary vinyl reissue, and we’ve got an exclusive “ancestor incest red” variant, limited to 300 copies and up for pre-order now.
Previous singles:
Deaf Club — 2022 Tour Dates
April 14 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar w/ Napalm Death
April 16 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Madonna Inn w/ John Waters, Josie Cotton, Kate Clover
May 7 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
May 8 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
May 10 Dallas, TX @ Rubber Gloves
May 12 Austin, TX @ Elysium w/ METZ, Spotlights
May 18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell
June 9 Los Angeles, CA @ Resident
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25 Chaotic Hardcore Albums from the 2000s That Are Seminal Today
Black Cat #13 – I Blast Off! (2000)
The Sawtooth Grin – Cuddlemonster (2001)
Racebannon – In the Grips of the Light (2002)
The Blood Brothers – March On Electric Children (2002)
Orchid – Orchid (aka “Gatefold”) (2002)
Since By Man – We Sing the Body Electric (2003)
"We sing the body electric/Sickness says hold on/Would you like to dance, dance, dance?"
That's how Since By Man open "A Kid Who Tells on Another Kid is a Dead Kid" (probably an Over the Edge reference but not a Nation of Ulysses cover), with Sam Macon raising his voice to a harsh shriek on "dance, dance, dance" and totally embodying flamboyant hardcore in the process. That line also gives this Milwaukee band's Revelation-released debut LP its title, and -- for a subgenre that prides itself on shamelessly verbose poetry -- it makes sense that a band would name their album after a Whitman poem. Throughout We Sing the Body Electric, Since By Man deliver a shapeshifting soundscape that bounces between melodic math riffs, clean-sung hooks, and bludgeoning metalcore, sounding like a cross between The Blood Brothers, Botch, and Poison The Well (who Since By Man guitarist Brad Clifford later joined). It's often a fast, frenzied, constantly-in-motion record, but it sets itself apart from dime-a-dozen mathcore with a few atmospheric, slow-burning songs that veer closer to Jupiter-era Cave In. I don't know if this particular album is a big influence on the current punk scene or not, but it sure sounds like it could be; it combines a lot of different sounds that have been coming to prominence in recent years. Some parts of this album sound like early 2000s post-hardcore in a nutshell, but other times it feels genuinely ahead of its time.