Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
Here's a brash and bracing fusion of classic post-punk sub-genres. There are the spikes of feedback, general minimalism, and attitude of the trademark hardcore punk of the DC natives' home city. There's the jittering bass and rhythms that recall the quintessential post-punk sound of bands like Gang Of Four and Au Pairs. And there's the bluesy, expressive vocals and use of horns that you might hear on an X-Ray Spex record.
Priests bring these diverse influences to bear in an album afflicted with disaffection, dissatisfaction, and disconnection. There's a sense of future-panic here, with Katie Alice Greer's impassioned vocals serving as the only defiantly human element of compositions that evoke accelerating modernity or mechanization. With themes like that, it's amazing that this is so fun to listen to.
It's a spikey, prickly, energizing album, full of snarl and snark. Seek it out.
Stream in full below via YouTube.
Highlights: JJ • Nothing Feels Natural • Suck
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