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Hallelujah!: Wanna Dance

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Artist: Hallelujah!
Title: Wanna Dance
Format: 12" + Download
Label: Maple Death Records
“Wanna Dance” is a 20-minute mini-album from the Italian noise punk outfit. It’s predominantly a set of two-minute-long noise walls of guitar, uptempo punk drumming, distorted angry vocals and stretched, uncomfortable-sounding synths and some experimental lo-fi electronic sounds adding texture. But underneath it there’s a songwriting quality and intelligence that raises it well above the average angry garage band. Tracks like the title track may sound dumb at first listen, but there’s an infectiousness to them and in some ways this is speeded-up, revved-up pop music in punk costumes.

Some of it’s rather earnest, like the only long track “Alter Ego” with its sweary lyrical frustration gradually getting mirrored by the music, or “Champagne”’s barely channelled raw fury.

There are more tongue-in-cheek moments though. “Your Duck”, with its bouncy two-note synth pattern and Iggy Pop-parodying line “now I wanna be your duck”, is the sound of a band not taking things too seriously.

This is the sound of a punk band maturing well, without losing their heart.

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