Captured Tracks
After being coddled by the music press and gawked over for their name I get why hardcore purists and cynical music snobs are skeptical about Syracuse’s Perfect Pussy. Their rise was virtually overnight which to some felt undeserved.
But I found last year’s four-track cassette I have lost all desire for feeling to be an incredible first statement which left me writhing in joy with its shittily-recorded punk noise and singer Meredith Graves’ explosive confessionals.
Their first full-length Say Yes To Love like its predecessor is the same kind of frenetic bombshell. Much like Melt-Banana’s Yasuko Onuki Graves’ vocals act like a lightning rod for her bandmates to build collected chaos on. Though barely decipherable her lyrics are feverishly earnest and help set their music apart from any peers.
While no song quite matches the celebratory bustle of I have lost ’s “I” Say Yes offers surprises for both fans and naysayers. Lead track “Driver” and “Work” are both firestorms of blurry clatter that reinforce the members’ hardcore pasts but the Sonic Youth-jamming on “Interference Fits” and synth/pedal experiments that run from “Advance Upon the Real” into “VII” prove there are plenty of avenues to explore.
