Pleasures of the Flesh churn out reverberating post-punk from Louisville, Kentucky. The track “Passover” comes via their new EP Earthly Pleasures, released on Christmas. The track’s first half features a budding assembly of parts, featuring a brooding bass line, menacing vocal angst, and escalating guitars. Aesthetically, I’m reminded of The Chameleons UK, with a tinge of punk-friendly angst emerging in the second half. 01:45 sees a nicely melodic assortment of jangly guitars leading into the rhythmically inclined conclusion. “Passover” shows a convincing, nicely developing post-punk sound.
“This song is about trying to foster and live in a punk community with equality and kindness, but not forgetting that we’re in the South, and hatred and racism are very close to us in complicated ways,” the band writes.
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“Passover” and other memorable tracks from this month can also be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of January 2020’ Spotify playlist.
Great review of a great band. Much love to my Louisville homies!