Housewives
FF061116

THE REVIEW

With the release of their second LP, the Housewives assert themselves forcefully as one of the most avant-garde entities in the UK's alternative scene. Released by a label like Rocket Recordings, which has always stood out for its special focus on more experimental publications, 'FF061116' (released on August 18, 2017) is one of the most interesting records from this perspective to come out of England in recent months.

This time, unlike others, we are faced with a band we can truly define as unconventional and unorthodox, whose sounds, instead of coming from the London City, seem to emerge directly from the late seventies' New York.

'FF061116' is divided into seven tracks that cross every frontier of experimentalism and shatter every barrier of sound as if they were shockwaves created by a jet speeding high in the sky at supersonic speeds. Compared to groups like This Heat and the typical minimalism of no-wave music, or Einsturzende Neubauten, the sound of Housewives is a combination of post-punk, drone, noise, and avant-garde, with compositions laden with that post-hardcore frenzy of bands like Flipper, the verve of Fugazi, and the anarcho-punk of the Dutch band The Ex.

Sharp and edgy like a razor blade, obsessively compulsive in their repetitiveness, the music of Housewives lodges directly into your brain like a bullet fired at a speed of 1000 m/s. Then everything explodes into millions of fragments of ghosts generated by the mind.