Listen to … Neoplastic – Monday in Heaven
Hull-based post punkers present a raw, disconcerting and dominating track.
Screaming from the fringes of the loosely-defined post-punk genre, Monday in Heaven throws a new layer of newfound aggression into the band’s sonic arsenal. In a nutshell, Neoplastic’s latest offering does away with any semblance of ceremony and cuts right to the beating heart of the self.
The track gives little time for you to get acquainted with it before its true colours are revealed in a blinding authenticity; each element is terrifically raw, permeating the track’s unsettling duration.
By the time the lyrics turn into a guttural cry of failing relations and a near-reckless abandon, you might have grown familiar enough with Monday in Heaven to know what it’s about.
It’s barbed and sharp enough to captivate you, but shares enough similarities with post-punk predecessors – enough rounded edges among its grizzled bars – to manage expectations; but never compromising in the process.
You know what you’re getting yourself in for with Monday in Heaven. And that means opening yourself up experience a true sense of unsettling discomfort. And it does so wonderfully, through a combination of break-neck pacing, space and sparsity a plenty and the juxtaposition of calm reflection and saw-toothed vicious excess.
The execution and musicianship on display is enchanting enough. But listen again, paying close attention to the lyrics and their desperate delivery, and you’ll learn of an entirely new avenue of interpretation.
Despite its reprieve at the two minute mark, the track only seems to ramp up the tension and escalate throughout. Doing so while giving listeners some modicum of breathing space is all the more impressive.
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