Canadian synth punk band Mononegatives released its latest album Crossing Visual Field on April 21, 2023 and unleashed a set of songs that are the sound of raw dystopia. The song “North Carolina Atomic Bomb” sounds like something that made from found instruments culled from thrift store dives and some expert rehabilitation of old gear while listening to a steady diet of Metal Urbain, Pow!, Big Black and Devo while not sounding derivative of any of those. Its cutting/clashing guitar lines, fuzzy synth melodies and urgent, almost robotic vocals has a feel like a future wasteland of hard scrabble living in the ruins of technological civilization and there’s something thrilling about music that hits like the sudden realization that everything is a slow moving disaster so may as well get some enjoyment out of the immediate dopamine hit of the solid slices of benevolent irreverent punk nihilism that Mononegatives offer on this song and the rest of Crossing Visual Field. Listen to “North Carolina Atomic Bomb” on YouTube and follow the band at the links below.
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