Two Tears – Eat People 7”
(Kind Turkey)

Not something I had anticipated finding on my metaphorical desk, but that I’m glad to have received nonetheless, here’s three tracks from Kerry Davis, ex of Red Aunts, working in a primarily solo/homemade capacity.

Red Aunts were always one of the more garage-trash-punk affiliated riot grrl bands (or one of the more riot grrl-affiliated garage-trash-punk bands, if you prefer), and the more low-key Two Tears material initially seems to follow suit, Davis growling through “Eat People”, with all the Mr. Airplaneman-ish raunch you’d expect.

“Heisse Hex” and “Senso Unico” though are both persuasively mechanical, distantly Fall-like songs, the foreign language titles barked and twisted as if they were private language glossolia or magical incantations between whispered threats and complaints. The former in particular is great, chugging away like nobody’s business, a brilliantly sinister coda/end section and call-and-response chorus ringing like some cross between Mark E. Smith and Petra Černocká’s spell-casting in Saxana.

This is distinctive, quietly bad-ass music that raises the spectre of Mo Tucker’s ultra-primitive “Playin’ Possum”, filtered through the PJ’s 4 track demos, and probably every other contrived example I can pull from my itunes of a cool rock lady bludgeoning us with menacing self-sufficiency. Recommended!

http://www.myspace.com/thetwotears
http://www.kindturkeyrecords.com

Labels: singles reviews, Two Tears