I’m amazed to witness the birth of a new music project - Berlin-based band
Lolita Terrorist Sounds
which has just broken the silence with
their first studio release “Prison Song”, featuring Swans lap steel guitar legend, Kristof Hahn.
photo: Nicole Dargé
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The music video for “Prison Song” is out today on YouTube, featuring bandleader/founder Maurizio Vitale. Influenced by 70s and 80s Post-Punk DIY scene, the sound of “Prison Song” and the video for it has associatively led me to the atmosphere of Coil’s music video for “Tainted love” as well as to This Heat’s studio converted from an abandoned cold storage room in the south of London. Yet it has very original personality, inspired by an epistolary exchange between two tormented lovers split apart by a jail sentence.
“It reminds me of the best post-punk bands from the 70s…hotter than a frying pan, sharper than a razor…” – Kristof Hahn (Swans, Pere Ubu)
“A driving beat pushes Lolita Terrorist Sounds from a cool classic sound to a new strange word…” – Thomas Wydler (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds)
“Splicing together the grit and dirty glamour of the best 80s coldwave and industrial rock - with 21st-century shine and shiver all its own…” – Nick Soulsby (author of several books on Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Swans).
