Leatherette, Freakout Club, Bologna – Live Report :: Ondarock

What better way to get out of the Sunday coma, ready to start a new week with a good charge (and a vague principle of deafness), if not with a live at the highest volume? At the end of February, the proposal of the Freakout Club in Bologna fell on two local groups, namely Leatherette, accompanied by the Komarov Magnificent Backflip. Published “Fingerblaster” at the end of 2023, entirely self-produced album that had thrown discreet premises for the basic garage-punk project in the Felsinea city, the Komarov played far and wide for Italy and are returning from the competition for a place in the shadow area of ​​Bronson Recordings: very few, if not null, the doubts about their victory, which would follow the deserved possibility, which would follow the deserved possibility. to become worthy of the label companions of the protagonists of the evening. Introduced by the Country arias of “El Paso” by Marty Robbins, one of the common reference figures inside the band, the quartet rattles off about ten pieces in line.

THE'incipit instrumental and the dynamism of the unprecedented “The Result” immediately highlight the constants of the performance: the frontman shows a somewhat weak personality, if not when he sticks some gag Sortly in some of the subsequent songs, wearing a helmet or using the dental diverter. The guitar employee and keyboards follows him, who shows off a cowboy jacket complete with fringes (plate, lichen and molluscs included); Despite this fashionable pearl, it disappears on stage and there may literally anyone playing in its place, although in the studio it represents a fundamental component in the recording and mixing phase. To hold almost entirely the performance It is the rhythmic section, in particular the figure of the drummer, a war machine both in terms of technique and presence on stage. To want to be fussy, the only precisely precisely addressed to the bassist is that he sounds perpetually from his shoulders, resulting at times quite annoying. Considered the moodwanting to communicate a sense of escaped can also be considered passable, perhaps with a little less arrogance, given that the public is not found in the presence of a new Les Claypool.

To get noticed more I am a pigeon cover of the “break stuff” of the LIMP Bizkit, once again with a big one focus On the drummer who supports the singer in some passages, and the dizzying and articulated growing crescendo of “Cops with Clubs, Kids with Cigs”, among the most promising trait in the lot with very low hands, as well as one of the most successful in the live phase, where the group shows greater cohesion. The last Highlight worthy of mention it is marked by the destructive arias between surfing, country and hardcore-punk of “sos”, whose runs culminate in a fatal circle pit (encouraged by the drummer, who other otherwise?), While the closure is entrusted to “SMYT” and “MB”, with a place that empties slowly and where the interest seems to be aimed more at the beer at the bar or at a break to smoke a straw outside, a possible sign that the confusion on stage does not totally make justice to the well -packaged debut work and to the unpublished presented. Intended for the much coveted magnificence? Today no, maybe tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow …

It is not a mystery that sometimes dishes or very not very exciting discs can oppose effective performances, where reworked arrangements manage to give a different performance to the pieces in the lineup. This important discrepancy between the study version e performance live is found increasingly often, especially in the new projects in the post-punk and similar fields. A fitting preamble to pay attention to the leatherette, which after “Mixed Waste” (2021), “Fiesta” (2022), and the false step with the confusing “Small Talk” (2023), whose utility was however that of maintaining a constant lighthouse on the project, proved immediately ready to return with new mint songs and whose premises seem to be valid. Song among the salvable of the sophomore Already at the start, the schizophrenic “isolation” always makes the audience well and loads the public with its precipice races dominated by sax and drums, while the arrangement of the ramshackle “Spying on the Garden” is an effective confirmation of the thesis exposed previously, resulting clearly better than the mess present on disk.

Among the peaks of the concert there is theeutro instrumental of the “play” member; The execution of “ponytail” is not particularly brilliant, which appears unrecognizable and stepsive by a chaos of choirs. The guitars of the new “Control” act as an introduction to the subsequent “The Ugliest”, which creates a pretext to pogare. We go to the point with “Itchy”, tasting a return to the best studio, with Chris Fullard (Idles, Ulver) Still present at the mix: the track does not disappoint the expectations both in the study version and live, keeping the gaze aimed at the new wave of care and dark sound details of the first diaphragm, all seasoned with a Slacker share. Another novelty is represented by “aspirations”, of which it is not clear, but it is not important, because at that point of the performance we have now deaf and gallops on the spillings pseudoCountry. I slide via quickly the Tightened duet between singer and saxophonist on the notes of “Disappointment”, second song published recently, diving towards the engaging instrumental interludes of “zombies”, characterized by an excellent harmony between rhythmic section and guitars, and then I finish slowing down with the opening from the tones jazzate of “Mixed Waste”, however, lighting slightly in the caciara.

We start at the end of the set with theevergreen “Sunbathing”, between a wrong attack, promptly recovered, and the guitar-archetto coupled in plain sight, a “Ronaldo” a little too screamed, but balanced by a good instrumental tail revisited, and the highlight of “Fiesta” “So Long”, with an unexpected encore on the destructive growth of “Fly Solo”.
Between ups and downs (and a launch of confetti in the middle), the quintet appears it easily: now roared by concerts on concerts, he knows how to effectively keep the scene effectively. Destined to go up the china? It will be seen. Do not record all sold out within a small -capacity of Sunday indicates that there is still a lot to do.