FLASH is back with a three track cassette on time for their USA West Coast tour. Following on their fantastic debut LP they carry on with their primitive punk. Rooted in the RRV tradition of catchy anthemic tunes filled with riffs, melody and plenty of punk attitude. Wall to wall bangers on here. We hope you enjoy it.Our take: La Vida Es Un Mus released Flash’s debut LP last year, and they follow it up with this new 3-song promo cassette released in conjunction with their recent west coast US tour. I liked Flash’s debut LP, but it felt schizophrenic to me, with elements of 80s-influenced hardcore mixed with melodic punk and jittery rhythms that gave me an egg punk vibe… when I wrote about that record I said they sounded like “Negazione mashed up with the Coneheads.” While Eztek Ber Besteik keeps both the hardcore intensity and strong melodies, it sounds more coherent to me. With the brisk tempos and melodic songwriting, Flash reminds me of 80s bands who straddled the line between punk and hardcore… I’m thinking of a band like Toxic Reasons who took the big hooks of ’77 UK punk and made it intense enough for the hardcore crowd. The big choruses also remind me of 80s Spanish punk, particularly Eskorbuto, and that influence combined with the lead guitar acrobatics brings to mind Peligro Social and Ruleta Rusa. Even better, it’s all wrapped up in gritty, vintage-sounding production that has that essential petina of 80s cool.
