MESH – Violent Peasant
Philadelphia quartet MESH are releasing their debut album No Fun At All on July 24th via Feel It Records, three years after their self-titled cassette EP on Born Yesterday. “Violent Peasant” is the first single, and it’s two minutes and forty-three seconds of jangle-punk that knows exactly what it’s doing. Twelve-string guitar leads up front, a pulsing bassline, a chorus built for chanting along: the ’60s psychedelia and ’70s post-punk reference points are obvious and worn without any apology.
If you already know Smirk or Snõõper, MESH will feel like familiar company, that same scrappy playfulness pushed somewhere tighter and more immediate. The tension in the track is the thing I keep coming back to: it moves fast but never loses control, which is harder than it sounds at this tempo. Their record release show is August 28th at Johnny Brenda’s in Philly with Eraser and Taurus Judge. The album title is a joke, for what it’s worth.
