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Do., 5.6.2025, 19:00 Uhr: CLAMM (AU) + BZRSKE (HH) – Goldener Salon, Hamburg
CLAMM
Hailing from Naarm/Melbourne, punk trio CLAMM—comprising Jack Summers, Miles Harding, and Stella Rennex—delve into the tumultuous experience of youth striving to lead an authentic and principled life in an increasingly chaotic world. Their music confronts the challenges of navigating entrenched systems of power and oppression while striving to preserve mental well-being and a strong sense of self. Through their raw and visceral sound, CLAMM aspires to foster community, ignite creativity, and provide a channel for catharsis.
BZRSKE
Punk from Hamburg, Germany.
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guitarsssss. This opens with a big beautiful chord that kind of…dissolves out into some buzzing bees (mostly on the left) and squall (mostly on the right) and then the percussion (cymbals!) and vocal (perfectly shouty) come in and the mix sort of evens out into a more uniform wall of sound, but like…a friendly wall, the gym in my elementary school had sections of the wall that were covered in a layer of lightly textured matte red vinyl over some foam padding so if kids crashed into the wall they’d be less likely to get hurt, so like that except instead of vinyl the foam layer is covered in slightly bedraggled long-pile fake fur in…let’s say a saturated kind of magenta purple? Like this but with a little more blue:
But there are occasional interjections of the Squall guitar breaking out of the faux-fur wall of sound, and there are some really chord progressions at work here that make this feel driving and determined, again in a friendly-feeling way.
(I could replace the original art I selected with just the fake fur, but I don’t want to! crocodile from here, I was like okay what animal lies and thought of the phrase “crocodile tears” and then after I already found this and liked its energy match-ish to the song I remembered the band name is CLAMM and I should have found art of a clam TOO LATE)
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a/s/l: CLAMM
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Live Review: Preoccupations at YES in Manchester 13 February 2023
Words: Andy Hughes
It was a trip discovering earlier in the day that Aussie trio CLAMM would be supporting visiting Canadians Preoccupations at YES later that evening in Manchester. The name rang a bell (who could forget a name like CLAMM?), so the afternoon was spent familiarising oneself with their latest album. A quick run through of ‘Care‘ was enough to get us out of the house…
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Treble reviews ‘Care,’ the sophomore album from Melbourne’s CLAMM- out now on Chapter Records!
CLAMM : Care | Album review | Treble
CLAMM grapple with uncomfortable things throughout Care, many of which tie back to mental health taking a hit every time civilization creeps ever closer to full-blown dystopia. And in response, the group offers a purge of similarly uncomfortable sounds and textures, feedback and atonal saxophone, aggressive barks and heaps of distortion. But sometimes that’s the best therapy there is.
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Listed: CLAMM
CLAMM is a punk rock trio out of Melbourne, whose second album CARE was recorded in any interval permitted during Australia’s strict COVID lockdown. The band, made up of childhood friends Jack Summers and Miles Harding plus bass player and singer Masie Everett, rails against that and all other restrictions in an album that Jennifer Kelly described as landing, “brutalist punch after punch in battering songs that are anthemic without being especially devoted to melody. These are shouty, rally-the-masses adrenaline hits, stripped to pounding one-two simplicity, and sheathed with echo.” All three members contributed to this Listed.
[[MORE]]Miles Harding
Giorgio Moroder, Son of My Father
I’ve always known Giorgio Moroder as the “Father of Disco,” and I sort of left my knowledge at that. Then my neighbor across the road pulled out this album and put it on, and I was blown away. “Automation” and “That’s How I See Her” are the top tracks for me, but Side A and B barely have a lull, all hits in my opinion.
The Caretaker, Everywhere at the end of time
This is one of the most interesting things I’ve heard in recent times. In six stages, The Caretaker embarks on artistic reflections of specific symptoms which can be common with the progression and advancement of the different forms of Alzheimer’s. It’s quite a journey but a worthwhile one.
破地獄/Scattered Purgatory, 山險峻/Sua-Hiam-Zun
Pretty sure Jack found this album at Strangeworld records in Melbourne. If my memory serves me correctly, the guy who runs the shop recommended it to Jack, he’s good at that. Scattered Purgatory are from Taipei and formed in 2013, I don’t know much else about them but this album is some ambient mastery.
Corrosive Crowd, “Insektenliebe”
My brother showed me the song “Insektenliebe” a while ago, and i Ihave never stopped listening to it. New wave/Punk out of Switzerland in 1980. I’ve always found music from the 1980s challenging, but maybe Corrosive Crowd are a gateway into good stuff from the 1980s if you also find it challenging.
Roland Klick, “Deadlock”
I had a bit of a CAN obsession and got put onto the trail of their various soundtracks and film scores that they composed over the years. I watched this film purely to see their music through a cinematic experience but wound up really enjoying the film. It was dubbed poorly and my first Spaghetti Western experience and I loved every moment.
Masie Everett
Cataldo, “In Now and Then”
One of my absolute favorite songs of all time. I can’t remember exactly when or where I first heard this song, I think I discovered it on Bandcamp maybe around five or so years ago. I’ve probably listened to it once a week for the past five years. To me, it’s one of those songs that is just perfect in every single way - like as if it was made for my ears. The production, the structure, the melody, the lyrics, the way the horns breathe in and out throughout the song, every single god damn little detail! Just perfect. Timeless. I put it on and it matches whatever mood I’m in — happy, sad, anxious, angry, excited, bored, anything. It’s an incredibly beautiful piece of music.
The music video for “Direction” by Mat Kerekes
Mat Kerekes is the singer of Citizen, a band I was really into in my younger teenage years. I was a bit of a nerd and really into new wave American/Midwest emo. Anyway, he released some solo stuff which was really cool, but I remember watching this film clip for the first time and just being in absolute awe. I can’t even really properly explain why haha! I think it’s one of those personal soft spots or emotional connections you feel for random things that probably won’t resonate in the slightest with most other people. It’s basically a video that’s been reversed and slowed down of this man passionately dancing in front of camera. I’m pretty sure it was just shot on an iPhone or something, but I remember watching it for the first time and for whatever reason just falling in love, not with the man in the video but with the way he was moving. I think the reason why I love it so much is that it’s a really just a depiction of how a regular person dances, like at a party or at a festival, but it’s been filmed and slowed down in a totally different context with different music, and you can actually see how beautiful it is when someone is just dancing like a goofball, you know? I remember watching it a bunch of times and trying to replicate his dance moves in the video because I wanted to try and convey the same emotional reaction I got from watching the clip. I absolutely adore watching people dance. I guess everyone does. Music and dance are probably the two most beautiful forms of self-expression in my opinion.
SOPHIE, “Is It Cold in the Water”
I discovered this song only very recently, and I fell in love instantly. It’s a beautiful song. The vocals and the melody are just phenomenal, and I love the urgency of the ascending synth throughout the song. I also learnt that tragically, Sophie passed away last year, however her legacy remains through her incredible music
Jack Summers
Broadcast, “I found the F”
I rediscovered this song the other day and let out a chill “wow….” It is the opening track from Broadcast’s 2005 album Tender Buttons. It’s a classic. They must have finished that song and known it had to be the opening track. I don’t really know that for sure at all. Trish Keenan had a beautiful voice. The song makes me feel like time is all floaty, and life is passing by around me, and everything’s a bit funny and nice. I listened to it and made sure I had the album downloaded so that I can listen to it in some of the many hours we are about to spend in a van together on tour.
Robbie Basho, “Moving Up a Ways”
Robbie Basho was born in the 1940’s in Baltimore. He made Asian-inspired folk music. I think he played in an open C tuning on a 12-string guitar because he was inspired by a Hindustani instrument called the sarod. With one guitar he manages to create this constant ringing sound throughout the song like you might hear in meditative music or from traditional Indian instruments. The song’s a beautiful, strange journey.
“Moving up a ways, over yonder
Where the rainbow sighs
And the eagle cries to sun
We are all one.”
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CLAMM — Care (Chapter Music)
Photo by Gen Kay
CLAMM, out of Melbourne, gets maximum force out of the punk trio formation. The band lands brutalist punch after punch in battering songs that are anthemic without being especially devoted to melody. These are shouty, rally-the-masses adrenaline hits, stripped to pounding one-two simplicity, and sheathed with echo.
[[MORE]]Care is CLAMM’s second album, following 2021’s Beseech Me, an album of comparable violence and intensity and snare-shot agitation; you can get the gist of it from this live performance of “Liar.” The band formed around friends since grade school, Jack Summers and Miles Harding, and now includes the bass player and singer Masie Everett. Everett played on Beseech Me, but she didn’t do much singing there. One of the main differences between the first album and the second, then, comes her participation in the massed, shouted refrains. She augments the chorus in “Done It Myself,” “Monday” and “Bit Much,” making them a group effort, rather than an individual one, and consequently giving the songs a bit more communal, enveloping urgency.
The fire, though, comes from the pummeling interplay between Summers’ militant chants, his wild, flailing guitar and Harding’s primal, kit pounding cadences. Every sound is thrown like a punch, rocking you back with sheer bludgeoning impact. The sound is instantly familiar, though surprisingly hard to pin down with punk antecedents. The closest I can get is Ex-Cult with fewer moving guitar parts, Stiff Little Fingers without the propensity for tunefulness, or Perth’s Zerodent but a bit more metal. The band itself likes to invoke California garage punks like the Osees and Ty Segall, and I wasn’t hearing it until “Make Me,” whose mammoth guitar riff sounds like Fuzz.
All 15 songs are shots to the gut, with highlights in “Monday”’s hopped up denunciation (“I don’t want drugs, I don’t want fame, I don’t want money, I don’t want love”), “Scheme”’s feedback screaming dissonance and “Buy”’ sublimely heavy riffs jacked up on amphetamines to warp speed. If you were to ask for anything, it might be a bit more variation. But then again, if you’re getting this much oomph out of basic ingredients, why add a lot of extras?
Jennifer Kelly
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Chicago Reader speaks with Melbourne punk trio Clamm about their new album!
Melbourne punk trio Clamm show how much they care on their new second album - Chicago Reader
“The band play hard-driving, punk- and garage-fueled heavy rock, and while their 2021 debut full-length, Beseech Me, had some sharp edges, their new record, Care, cuts like razor wire.”
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“polaroid – un blog alla radio” – S21E31
“polaroid – un blog alla radio” – S21E31
“Sono stata pigra con i miei problemi e ho lasciato che fossero loro a controllare me, non mi sono data da fare per risolverli e ora sono qui che mi guardo i piedi”, canta Francie Moon nel suo nuovo singolo, qui in apertura di puntata. Se in questo periodo purtroppo vi riconoscete in questo profilo, se avete bisogno di scrollarvi di dosso un po’ di quella pigrizia magari cercando buona musica,…
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Clamm, guarda il video di “Bit Much”
Clamm, guarda il video di “Bit Much”
I post-punk australiani Clamm pubblicheranno il nuovo album “Care” il 19 Agosto. E’ il primo disco con il nuovo cantante e bassista. In anteprima potete vedere il videoclip di “Bit Much”: