Starting the inaugural music-post with LAZINESS. I did find it appropriate to bridge Damaging Noise's severely rotten corpse and Selfish Few's afterbirth with a noisecore post, but you'll probably see "old shit" you "already have" for awhile because REASONS (I have random shit on my mediafire account for whichever homies in Latvia or Siam, so why not just bust it all out for everybody). Anyway...Japan's rousing answer to Sex Pistols...if they were minimalist...and Chaos U.K. Due to a slightly overlapping time frame with Swankys' own confusing formation, Pistols and earliest 'K were their predominant influences (comorbid with a healthy obsession for Chaotic Dischord's overall aesthetic, sonic or otherwise). The guitars are shrill (they're on the tingly end of braindrill, and not an all out h-bomb assault to hearing-as-a-concept), the songs roll around the deep and punchy bass, the well-mic'd drums speedily 1-2-beat and clunk on the toms with satisfactory efficiency, and Watch's ultra-engrish (and ultra-retarded) cloning of Johnny Rotten...somehow still works. I've always been at a loss WHY, but it works...to the point where I could never picture Swankys with a legitimately capable singer. The production is professional too, almost spacious. It's undeniably a punk recording, but closer to the standards of, well, Chaos U.K. and Sex Pistols than the usually expected boombox-worship. As snooty as it sounds, this is an essential record. Swankys and Confuse are to blame for the over-saturation (in rediscovery I'm assuming) of "noisecore" the last few years, so you may as well start out with the originators of it all...and Confuse (they're a post for another time).
My rip, the other rip out there isn't in stereo (thereby ruining the effect of Watch's multi-tracked and hard-panned vocals), and lyrics included (for once)...
