Superb LP, really into these guys - 100 copies only on blue vinyl with OBI and lyric sheet. https://saru481.bandcamp.com/album/--7
Sarushibai - The Melancholy of the Social Outcasts - LP.
Somewhere along the way, the world of DIY punk became extremely codified. A lot of the current punk enjoyed by myself and everybody else is very paint-by-the-numbers, genre-specific, self-referential. Play like THIS, sound like THAT, ideas that are easily identified and collectively understood.
But punk wasn't always this way. And I think Sarushibai prove that even now, it doesn't necessarily have to be. Sarushibai has the spirit of adventurousness and the willingness to take chances that I associate with ADK Records bands like The Stalin and Aburadako, LSD and Kikeiji, or with early American punk like Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Dangerhouse Records. For me, Sarushibai harken back to a time when punk was more about "attitude" and its expression was more free and individualistic, and not set with so much regimented formality.
Clearly The Stalin and Kikeiji are starting points, but Sarushibai create their own journey through loneliness and sadness, inferiority and abnormality, weaving in a variety of instruments and influences to create a unique experience that still resonates as PUNK. Because what is punk if not music for outcasts?
1. 沼の側 (Bottomless Swamp Side) 01:33
2. 偽言の森 (The Forest of Lies) 01:08
3. 半透明 (Semi-Transparent) 01:43
4. 終わりを探す (Find the End) 02:00
5. 嘘八百 (Full of Lies) 02:25
6. 劣情 (Inferiority) 03:00
7. 倒錯 (Perversion) 04:10
8. 歪曲した風景 (Distorted Landscape) 03:19
9. 他は要らない (Don't Want Anything Else) 02:22
10. 縛ラレル(密室問答ミックス) (Strapped Down) 00:56
11. 優しい洗脳 (Gentle Brainwashing) 05:39
12. 夜明ケハ未ダカ？ (Is It Dawn Yet?) 04:57
