Kong
If any band ever was going to actually slaughter your eardrums (like a marauding sonic tyrant with less compassion than Vlad the Impaler), that band would be Kong, whose long anticipated debut album Snake Magnet has finally arrived this week. Brush up on ‘em via the links below.
Manchester 3-piece ‘Kong’ deliver a special breed of abrasive punk; an intense mongrel borne of polyrhythmic complexities and ear-splitting distortion; the angsty bitter bastard son of maximum sonic density.
Snake Magnet reaches moments of curious soundscape complexity; almost hypnotic combinations of space-ace beeps and bleeps.
Of course shortly after lulling you into some kind of false security with this seductive trickery, they then smash your brain out of your nose with a sweet riff straight from Charles Manson’s back catalogue.
Often compared to Shellac, Mclusky and with a touch of Fugazi, Kong are ticking all the right boxes - both on record and as a live act – to explode (probably in a cloud of poison gas) into excessive notoriety any minute.
Snake Magnet is released today on CD/DVD digipak and all major download sites. The first 100 preorders come with an individual limited, hand drawn numbered and signed piece of artwork taken from the Leather Penny Video Shoot.
“… the first time I saw them play I felt a burning sensation on my arm and realised that I had developed eczema.” Andrew Falkous 2008 (McLusky/Future of the left)
LEATHER PENNY:
BLOOD OF A DOVE:
Kong have a busy July planned, with their incendiary live show calling in at the following locations in space and time:
July Dates:
15th – Mad Ferret, Preston
16th – The Ruby Lounge, Manchester
17th – Buffalo Bar, London
18th- The Macbeth, London
19th – Freebutt, Brighton
22nd – The Flapper, Birmingham
23rd – Chameleon Café Bar, Nottingham
24th – Brundell Social Club, Leeds
25th – The Tunnels, Aberdeen
26th – Nice and Sleazy, Glasgow
