My Review: Billy Zach - A Momentary Bliss

 

Billy Zach - A Momentary Bliss

The Hamburg worshipped by the old scribe is back, in a powerful, overbearing, perfect, unequivocal way, through a band that is a prodigy to spread, not to do so would be a mortal offence, given the talent, dedication, skill and propensity to write sheets of musical notes full of eye-popping scratches.

Nine sabre-rattling, nine croaky-sounding factories, nine punches in the stomach, with the style of those who wear genius to deny the distance between those who really are and those who cannot even dream of it.

An excellent record, nervous, full of thorns, spits, kicks, complex but simply perfect for enjoying its compounds that melt into our thoughts and our legs dancing like splinters without consciousness. The songs do it all beautifully, connecting and disconnecting emotional tension, showing how Post-Punk and Noise have something to share, a dialogue that reveals flames of enjoyment and annihilates Alternative's attempts to try and eat from the same plate. 

One gets the distinct feeling that the band's central nervous system is tuned up with the desire to demonstrate how others, who are succeeding, perhaps do not possess this range of sonic, compositional possibilities, where the balance between talent and design ends in a nice draw. There are no tracks to be preferred but a continuous listening, an eating of German lead on days of fatigue...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

10th March 2023

https://lapochettesurpriserecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-momentary-bliss