Labels: Dama Da Noite – Iron Lung
Review by: Alex Deller
Four tracks of urgent, aggressive post-punk from São Paulo that’re injected with enough personality and invention to raise them above a rather crowded pack. Iciness and gloom prevail (of course) while Joy Division, Killing Joke and Bauhaus loom in the background like smudge-edged spectres wrought in chalk, ash and charcoal. Amid these familiar elements are washes of fizzling noise and dissonant, raw-edged riffs that cut through to the bone and grate unkindly against militaristic drum patterns. The desperate tension of the music is matched by a hectoring vocal delivery which incorporates some endearing … and perhaps inadvertent? … urghs and arghs, thus ensuring the aggro punk content remains high and that Cadaver Em Transe are common-sense bedfellows for labelmates as diverse as Kim Phuc, Behavior and Flesh World.