Orbit Cinta Benjamin / Flirt Split
Photo Cred 📸: @zaairul (Photo of Orbit Cinta Benjamin)
This week for New Music Monday we are incredibly excited to bring you this brand new split from two amazing bands. Flirt hail from Leipzig, Germany and have an incredibly chaotic yet catchy brand of screamo punk filling their side out, and it brings me immense amounts of stoke to hear brand new material from Kuala Lampur screamo legends Orbit Cinta Benjamin. The bands compliment each other in a way that only true dyed-in-blue titans of the genre can.
Flirt come through with a barn burner grip of songs. Fusing the punk aspect of classic german hardcore punk with the brilliance of 2000s era screamo, the melodic emo punk sprint of “Amazon Crime'' sounds like something that could easily have opened a Raein album with charred choruses and crust crackled screams leading into mid-tempo explosive songwriting. “Morsch” and “Trist” are both absolutely dripping with that classic euro skramz sound, not retrodden, but given an even finer edge and bite with Flirt’s wheeling guitar riffs, half nodded emocore drumming and resonant basslines. Closing track “Einfach So” builds a slow waltz with sparsely shouted vocals and finally swells into its huge emotional climax.
Orbit Cinta Benjamin do no slouching on their side. “Essence” kicks off with dissonant, spaced out riffs and drums building over an audio clip, exploding with panic chords and sharp screams carrying the split's urgency well. “Four Corners” slide in with cascading riffs and huge drums, bleeding into roared choruses and those trademark OCB shouts. “Harbinger” punches and winds with rollicking guitar and low thundering bass. “Chalice” has the coloring of midwest style picking and drums, before swelling into an insane wall of sound and noise, tight instrumentation and larger than life catharsis. A classic screamo waltz, metered out with the chorus of conjoined shouts and screams the track winds into quiet closing out with the other half of its earlier sample.
What’s sure to be the hottest split of the year, you can get a sneak peek at “Chalice” from Orbit Cinta Benjamin’s side. Veterans of the sound, tempered with newcomers flirt, is an absolute banger and a heavily favored conteder of ours for split of the year. This joint venture out August 21st on Tomb Tree tapes will also have a 12" vinyl available from Major Label, SM Musik, Bad Health Rec., ZilpZalp Rec and Salto Mortales Records
