VANGAS - s/t LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition of 150 copies on clear vinyl with black smoke. Small qty available in Australia.

Highly recommended.

Late contender for Album of the Year honours! Will certainly feature up there among the "noise" rock category.

Album of the Week at Post Trash:

"Leave hype behind, Vangas have made one of the year’s best new records.

The recent self-titled album by Atlanta band Vangas is a punishing and relentless record. From the first moments of “Chromatic Ascending” to the closing “The Handstand (Pt. 2),” there’s little room to breathe as the band tunnels through a hole of noise for 35 minutes, dragging you along amid some of the year’s most exciting noise rock.

At times the album sounds like you’ve locked this band out of your house and they’re trying to break down your door with the sounds of their instruments alone. Metallic guitars slash through the mix like power tools while industrial grade bass and drums pound out machinelike rhythms. Piano and bass clarinet add to the sonic assault at various times. Melodies appear momentarily, such as the keys at the end of “Waltz in E Minor,” but are quickly consumed in the explosiveness of the full band. For much of the album, their instruments combine into a singular energetic force, inextricable, aggressive, and commanding.

Vangas aren’t just making noise for the sake of noise: compositionally their songs are compelling and the band is airtight. Digging through Vangas’ youtube channel (highly recommended, watch the full length video for their 2019 album Facial Tissue), there are many different live versions of these songs floating around; it’s clear these guys have been improvising together for a long time and honing these tracks for years. “Everyday is the Same,” “Sandstone,” “Waltz in E Minor,” and “Dog Walker” were all released in 2020, and originally engineered by the band, but have been remixed and mastered to their most potent by Dan Dixon (Dropsonic, PLSPLS) for this release." - Post Trash