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Stay Down
Formed in 2013 with ex-members of Future Kings Of Spain and Bambi, Badself is Karl Hussey, Dan Barry and Bryan McMahon. Confidently bursting forward with jagged edged songs, Badself musically combine the forces of punk rock and blues with lyrical dark humour. This close-knit, taut and solid three-piece owe as much to the rhythmic stop-start of The Jesus Lizard as to the unrelenting movement of AC/DC.
Their thunderous debut album ‘The Three Daughters of Mara’ was recorded with producer Ronan McHugh (Def Leppard). The songs are laid out like the allurements placed before by Mara’s three daughters. ‘Stay Down’ opens by tempting listeners, leaving them desirous of hearing more.
The fully formed sound of Badself is like that of a transitioning triangle. Changing from equilateral to isosceles to scalene, their sound pushes from one idea to another yet always retains a strong, defined shape. With interesting time signatures and discordant chiming chords, not uncommon in the work of Fugazi or Shellac, the band remains faithful to the blueprint of simple riffage.
The music of Badself is not meditative. Sonically, you should also expect things stripped to their bare essentials, bright sparkling guitars, low down dirty bass, solid drums and no-nonsense vocal showers throughout. Here Mara wins. Buddha is beaten.