RAD PITT – PITT HAPPENS
Rad Pitt are, without doubt, one of the most exciting bands I have seen live. How many bands do you see where every member bar the drummer spends most, if not all, of the set in the audience? After three albums and with a “fresh faced new vocalist – young-enough-to-be-the-guitarists-son” as the press release puts it – the band’s first release for the wonderful Drongo Records is a four tracker of typically raging post-hardcore.
If there is one word to describe Rad Pitt it is intense: intense, throat-shredding vocals; intense, heavy, fat guitar riffs; intense, pounding drums. The drumming on Lycra Larry is insane and meshes with some distinctly menacing bass. Draco features some proper shoutalong gang chants. The single Like Me, Oh Please Like Me is as ugly as the incel culture it lampoons. It’s not all fiery rage, though. MacReady’s Molotov Mocktail has an almost laidback interlude with – gasp! - clean vox.
As with a lot of the stuff I really rate, this won’t be for the majority but those with a liking for music that is heavy, fast, cathartic and, yes, FUN this should be an essential purchase. And these new songs will absolutely DESTROY live.
9/10
