Beside You Body Maintenance SKU: DRUNKENSAILOR163 Barcode: 5056321695093 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Drunken Sailor Released Date: 2nd June 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Spring has sprung, which here in the UK means several months of not knowing what the fuck’s going on temperature-wise. Intense sunshine with a severe chill in the air? Brutal downpour underpinned by a sticky, sickly warmth? We’ve got the lot, and more besides. Perfect weather, then, for Body Maintenance, who hail from the traditionally sunny climes of The Land Down Under while dealing in a particularly icy brand of hardcore-tinged post-punk. Confused? Nah, you won’t be, so ignore this heavily laboured introduction. You’ll be too busy being totally bowled over by the roar of their echo pedal-laden racket. ‘Beside You’ is their first full-length LP, following a 12” EP and live cassette on guitarist James Kane’s own Unwound Records, and a self-released demo cassette. Superficially, their take on brutally noisy sang-froid is the sort of thing that garners lazy comparisons to Joy Division, but more discerning ears will pick out similar sounds like Stockholm’s much-missed Holograms, Blitz circa ‘Second Empire Justice’ and even Italy’s modern anarcho heroes A Culture Of Killing. All of which is kind of irrelevant except that it should tell YOU, o worthy possessor of exquisite taste, that it sounds fucking great and you need to get this band in your ears immediately. Drummer Zoe Mulcahy (also of Jake Robertson’s effervescent Alien Nosejob project) may be the secret star of the show, whether lending a glowing pulse to the coldwave-imbued robotica of ‘Time Enough’ or simply wailing hard on album opener ‘Silver Yarns’. Riley Stafford’s dispassionate bark also stands out, especially on the driving ‘It’s Theatre’, although it’s buried deep in the mix, clouded by the wash of guitars and Ella Howells’ glacial synths. But let’s not get bogged down in individual performances, ‘cause this Melbourne quintet are way more than the sum of their parts. The whole is punchy and powerful; the sound pulls you all over the place emotionally – you can’t truly prepare for the way the brooding title track sneaks up on you. It throbs in your brain like an amyl nitrate headache; it rages subtly and smartly while simultaneously indulging AND railing against a primitivist instinct to rock out. More simply, it’s the soundtrack to your springtime and beyond – this is the instant classic you’ve been after, so why waste any more time reading what I’ve got to say on the matter? Buy it, regret nothing but the shelf space you didn’t occupy. Genre: Alternative / Punk Artist Body Maintenance Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Drunken Sailor Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Silver Yarns Circles The Spiral Time Enough It’s Theatre Beside You The Fools, The Frauds Ends A Compliment Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head (Remastered) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Mute/BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st October 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head (Remastered) £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Mute/BMG SKU: 4050538825497 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Screaming Females Rose Mountain Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Don Giovanni | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th July 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Screaming Females Rose Mountain £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG089C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP Released 18th January 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092661415 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Sidelong Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bloodshot | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th April 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Sidelong £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS256LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Reuben In Nothing We Trust Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 21st July 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Reuben In Nothing We Trust £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM213V Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Buffalo Tom Birdbrain Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Situation Two | 1LP Released 20th July 2022 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Buffalo Tom Birdbrain £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Situation Two SKU: nn246501 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th July 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Slowdive everything is alive Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Dead Oceans | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 1st September 2023 £22.00 - £23.00 Select options Slowdive everything is alive £22.00 - £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Dead Oceans Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 1st September 2023 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Vandals, The Hitler Bad, Vandals Good Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Nitro | 1LP Released 27th September 2023 £90.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Vandals, The Hitler Bad, Vandals Good £90.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Nitro SKU: nn272883 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Camp Cope How To Socialise & Make Friends (US) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Run For Cover Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 2nd March 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Camp Cope How To Socialise & Make Friends (US) £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Run For Cover Records SKU: RFC173LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Oh Sees Face Stabber Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Castle Face | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th August 2019 £30.00 - £32.00 Select options Oh Sees Face Stabber £30.00 - £32.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Castle Face Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th August 2019 Read More Select options See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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