POWIęź; / FASCIA

Everything is dissecting, and everything is discordant around 'em. But it's not surprising at least for their crazy musical methodology. The KURWS is one of the Polish avantgarde / post-punk / garage bands that mashed and squashed me with the brilliant eccentricity of their endemic sound productions. Some Polish bands (like Indukti, Fren, Marcin Pajak, Stara Rzeka, or something) are my favourites but to be honest, it's quite delightful The KURWS are pushing and deforming me 'out of range'. In their latest album "Powi​ę​ź / Fascia" they play incredibly distorted illshapened songs with plain and cool basic instruments like guitar, bass, and drums. The soundscape launched by each instrument is pretty simple and clear, but the melody lines and rhythmic footprints discharged through their simple clear instruments are dreadfully complicated, mysterious and especially unsophisticated. Such an unsophisticated expression technique must ring my bell loudly and stickily.

Already their powerful play is explosive in the first track "Co nas łączy / What unites us" featuring full of mad infernal melodic rhythmic dissonance. We cannot repeat back such madness nor dance to it. The only thing we can do is to concentrate our ears and brains to catch and digest their audible energy. And their energetic intention goes forward randomizedly in the following titled track "Powi​ę​ź / Fascia". We can grab only quirkiness and oddness via their machinegun play. Wackily warped melodic repetition along with elusively rhythmic alteration is also wondrous. Flavourful seasoning with a kind of psychedelic spice can be heard. "Lęk i olśnienie / Anxiety and Lucidity" is short and monotonous but the combination of anxiety and lucidity, namely a mixture of darkness and monotony, grasps and squeezes our inner mind only for a short while. "Podchody / Foot chase" is another speed guru. There is not enough flamboyance nor elaboration but much power and vigour. After a short interlude "Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp / Infinite monkey theorem" (one of my favourite sheer-mad tracks though), another freaky 'controversial' work "Ruskie drogi / Russian roads" expresses Polish sadness, painfulness, and problematic issues. Colourful phrases can be heard through this eight-minute song - laziness, urgency, emergent crisis, or despair - and it makes sense under such a tough situation. But 'possibly' including the last "To nas dzieli / It divides us" they might mention this is only a sarcastic explanation and they and we should get more powerful and cheerful together ... my two cents.

Yeah I hope I will go on a trip to Poland and touch their timbre and confirm the common atmosphere in Polish venues ... wondering if they are all complicated and mysterious? Just kidding! :P