Emocat Records: A Benefit Comp for Palestine
Photo Cred 📷: @jtph0t0s
It has been over 4 months of what has effectively been a full blown assault on the Palestinian people by the Israeli government and its armed forces. Every single day innocent men, women and children are slaughtered and spun as terrorists by major news networks. As members of the DIY punk scene, a sound that was founded on the idea of opposition to the oppressor (despite whatever the revisionist have to say about it), we have a responsibility to band together and use our agency and power to not only support our siblings suffering through this hellscape, but to push back on all oppressive forces the world over. So we do what we can. We organize, we march, we show up in the ways available to us.
Emocat Records will be releasing this tape comp in benefit of the Palestinian Children’s relief Fund (PCRF). Any profits from physical or streaming sales will be donated. They’ve given us a sneak preview of the two tracks coming out. Terrifying Girls High School is a favorite of ours.
By extension, “Deadbeat” is now a favorite of ours. The band plays well in the garden of blustery sassy, snotty punk played with great urgency and taught wire intensity. The track is riddled with panicked fret scampering, reeling and blustery drumming and twangy, sharp-turn bass licks all melding and swelling together.
Local (to me) young guns Clay Birds have been making big waves since last year and for good reason. Their wink and nod play style, pays homage to multiple genres and sounds while articulating their own adolescent fury and pain in an incredibly heavy way. “Like Stuttering and Shifting” further explains my point, the track spans multiple genres and two massive emotions all in its minute twelve run time.
Unreal that we still have to beg for a nation state to stop it’s indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people and hopefully as more voices are added to this growing sentiment of unrest we can finally help put a complete stop to this maddening violence. “A Benefit Compilation for Palestine” will be available on tape and via streaming through Emocat Records on March 23rd and will feature tracks from Terrifying Girls High School, Clay Birds, Valeska Suratt, Fainting in Coils, Geronimostilton, Theodore War and onewaymirror.
Checkout their Bandcamp here : Emocat Records
Writer : @letsgetpivotal
Editor : @just_reidz
02/22/24
