Denim & Leather
Sacred Autism
Some bands make you feel like testing out a new pair of slippers in the local library. Other bands, maybe youll throw a beer down your throat before skating down a ravine. But the best type of bands make you wanna tear off your own ears and clamp em to the heads of everyone you hold dear, while you scream YOU CAN HEAR WHAT IM HEARING, RIGHT? Denim & Leather are the latter type. They mainly sound like Pissed Jeans flipping over a cement mixer while Kira-era Black Flag stand in a circle around em, throwing firecrackers. Except for when they dont - then they sound like the wooziest buncha too-cool-for-you guitar-slingers around, with lips curled to implausible angles. Sacred Autism is their debut album and you owe it to yourself to go deaf to it at the earliest opportunity. Wanna hear what pure euphoria feels like? Cathedral Gardens is all punk energy and corrosive fury, the reason you got into this whole mess. Hatchlings is The Stooges starting a brickfight, then smirkingly denying all involvement. Ancient Cowboy Burial Ground, meanwhile, is serious business.