White Lung – Deep Fantasy
Before recently, White Lung’s vocalist Mish Way was better known as a Vice contributor than for her band’s aggressive riot grrrl/grunge revival. Actually, they’re still not as well known as they deserve to be: with roughly 18,000 likes on their Facebook page, their audience has stayed relatively small despite a decent critical buzz around their music back in the late spring and early summer. Have all the thousands of people seeking the exact point where punk, grunge, and feminism intersect just missed this entirely? Deep Fantasy, the band’s latest, is a brash, confrontational, roaring album where the vigor and themes of 90s bands like Hole and Bikini Kill encounter the fangs and fervor of modern punk acts like Iceage and Eagulls. It’s a bold, adrenaline-rushing collection that pummels and rivets across ten tracks in merely twenty-two minutes.
Those who love their punk loud, sweet, short, and to-the-point will be foaming at the mouth for this one. In just about two minutes each, these songs attack with incredibly dark, heavy, technical guitar lines, pounding, petrifying percussive work, and the snarling, lacerating snarl of Mish Way. This isn’t your ordinary angry punk band — White Lung is several shades darker, metallic, and more terrifying than the vast majority of their contemporaries and even some of their influences. Get ready to be scared, thrilled, and overjoyed all at once; that’s your Deep-est Fantasy after all, right? -Max Freedman
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