Clear blue vinyl. Glasgow post-punk six-piece Kaputt aren’t strangers to directing their explosive energy and maximalist vibrancy in name of allegory and critique. Their 2019 debut album on Upset the Rhythm ‘Carnage Hall’ confidently deconstructed themes of surveillance, paranoia, and cultural identity through a sonic lens of high-tempo, bright, danceable pop hooks and technical, polyphonic rhythms which border on the bombast of zehul.New EP ‘Movement Now/Another War Talk’ continues the synthesis of animation and discontent with an ethos that exemplifies post-punk’s most original and guiding purpose: casting aside the rigid, signifyingfashions of modern performative genre tropes and instead combining a vast fluidity of influence, tone, and style to create something as unique and personal as it is countercultural. The result is a release that responds to the apathy of our situation with a positive thesis, breathing life into the lived-in, bursting through every vessel, leaving nothing unturned.
