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Aotearoa and So-Called Australian d-beat punk manic hardcore join forces to unleash a split lp.
Jalang destroy 7 songs including a Unsanitary Napkin cover. Screamed lyrics in Indonesian and English (Alda/Vocals is from Indo), hard hitting d-beat drums, heavy and vicious axe attack thats tempered with a catchiness that will groove your bones, and bass to hold it together.
Unsanitary Napkin are abit more wild in the adhiring to strict b-deat genre conventions, they make me think of alot of great 90's bands who flaunted punk conventions and just went musically rogue. I love it. They return the favour by slipping in a Jalang cover on their side.
Both bands rage with disgust at world that can sit by as genocide takes place, as women and marginalized people suffer under the boot of a bullshit system. But its all delivered with a friendly warmness that embraces the listener and allies like the humidity in a sweaty house show. The world is full of horrors but diy punk can slow a descent in total despair.
Our take: (So-called) Australia’s Jalang and Aotearoa’s (New Zealand’s) Unsanitary Napkin make a well-matched pair on this split 12”. Many of you are familiar with Unsanitary Napkin from their 2022 full-length All Billionaires Are Bastards, and their 6 songs continue in that bulldozer style, combining metallic riffing with a street-punk-ish knack for hooky melodies. The vocals are mile-a-minute political tirades in the tradition of MDC, with the heavy delay effect creating this woozy, swirling effect when the syllables wind around one another. It’s catchy, high-energy, and doesn’t sound like anyone else, so if you enjoyed the previous LP, don’t miss this one. As for Jalang, their vocalist has a similar sound to Unsanitary Napkin’s, but even more shredded-sounding. Jalang also keeps the energy level just as manic as Unsanitary Napkin, though their nods to Discharge and Cimex are more straightforward than Unsanitary Napkin’s sub-genre-obliterating racket. Interestingly, while each band covers one of the other’s songs here, both covers fit perfectly on their respective sides. A powerhouse record from two bands who were made for one another.
- Format Type: 12"