Following last year's somewhat more refined full-length debut, the second LP by Atlanta dark-/post punk group Nag feels more like a throwback to their earlier EPs - and i mean that in all the best ways. These songs are raw as fuck, the arrangements almost as sparse as you can possibly stretch the genre before it's gonna collapse. Why write a goddamn novel when all you need to get across is a single but rather desperate sentence?
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Night Miasma are a group from Chemnitz, Germany featuring members of L'appel Du Vide, whith whom you're probably familiar already if you're into that kind of thing. Their debut EP doesn't stray too far from that stylistically, delivering a flavor of dark punk / deathrock-infused post punk that doesn't add anything new to the genre but gets all the basics right in these four soundly constructed songs.
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Once again Barcelona's scene is killing it! Plataforma manage to do just that thanks to a beautifully rough, DIY-as-fuck sound in the realm of dark-/post punk with a healthy dose of goth/death rock doom & gloom. Crisis come to mind as well as the early 2010's Kopenhagen scene - think Lower and early Iceage - and some more recent stuff like britain's Disjoy.
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