Nass//zuruck - TENSIONS
My God how beauty hurts, at least the beauty that is unrolled within the thirty-five minutes of TENSIONS, an erupting volcano that engulfs Los Angeles through the lava of its prodigy sons named Nass//zuruck, in the bustle of sound traffic, notes fired not blankly at the temples, in a robust gothic novel, perverse and hallucinated. A train, with Synthwave TNT loaded on board, rushes out of the small Californian town to carry the word and the backbone of its musical turmoil along the perimeter of madness, ensuring that no part of the world can be spared. Fast-paced, the tracks take our breath away and draw a bruising circuit, as our bodies slam into thoughts made slippery and unable to sustain the pressing rhythm on display. Blades of American post-punk show how they have nothing to fear when compared to their European counterparts: it's guerrilla warfare, it's a land of conquest for these guys who know how to be as brave as Marines having landed on our uncertainties. The sound is compact, heavy, lunar in the reddish days, it knows how to incorporate study and technique, and it is indisputable that it all sounds like an escape from the present.
Like modern Attila, they sweep away history to conquer at least their own, and all that remains is for us to be struck by their cerebral machinations that know how to extend to the physical, turning our bodies into wet rags...
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
16th February 2023
https://nasszuruck.bandcamp.com/album/tensions-2
