Underskog

When Civil Civic unleashed their début single ‘Less Unless’ in the early months of 2010, it triggered a tsunami of panic and confusion that swept the blogoshpere. What sort of godless fruit-bats would MAKE that kind of music? Have they no HONOUR?!

Just as they were about to be siezed and turned over to the Pitchfork Police for cerebral re-programming, the “Civvies” followed it up with their latest double B-…side anti-anthem ‘Run Overdrive’ / ‘Fuck Youth’.

Mixing jaggedly progressive post-punk guitar, jamming melodic fuzz bass and pummelling drum machine beats, delivered in a no-frills lo-fi-pop package, these Europe-based Australian instrumentalists have tapped their own original sound, emailing tracks back and forward, reconstructing and tweaking the others contributions, and minimising the possibility of rehearsal room punch-ups.

Shunning vocals to make more room for their soaring distortions, Civil Civic rejected the idea of a front man and instead created ‘The Box’. Part evil drum machine, part hobo light-show, all road-case, The Box completes the Man-Machine tryptic.

It seems that with their grisly arsenal of melody, noise, tricky bits, thuggy bits and that big horse-syringe full of type-O FUN, they’re determined to cement their reputation as “the thinking persons party band”, whatever the cost to themselves, music or humanity at large.

After the show DJ’s Walking With Jesus will turn whatever is left into a circle pit of goofy dancing.