Liquids
Life is Pain Idiot

LA RECENSIONE

I have spent many hours of my life inside rehearsal rooms more or less adequate to their duty: the first one I remember is located in the fraction of my town, just a little more than a closet with a shabby drum set (leitmotif) and a couch that had seen its fair share of splashes upon that decaying dust. A band of young metalheads in the making used to try there, who later would explode and are currently all dead, musically speaking; one of them, however, teaches piano and guitar.
The second rehearsal room was in a village’s municipal building even smaller than mine, but damn if it was well-equipped: three amps with attached heads, a drum set always polished with replacements on site, and even the possibility to record with an ancient computer and ambient microphones; I remember we recorded a historic piece of mine in Italian, someone ventured to say it was an Italian prog pop. It might be better if I forget it. In this room, I passed through three distinct phases: the first was the Metallica cover phase with Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth and Breaking the Law by Judas Priest, it wasn’t for me. After the band exploded after a while, the old drummer who had kept the time slot called me back, we never managed to do anything, just some indie covers with little desire; Elia was only interested in hooking up with a friend of mine, succeeded. The third band was the one with the women, there is even something in the ether, mostly very catchy and artsy noise-shoegaze.
The last rehearsal room (although in the meantime we toured multi-rooms between the hovel and the futuristic) is where I poured more mental blood and where my energies became true songs, pure feelings. Two bands with different names, different souls (first dark metallic post-punk, afterwards some post- and pop hardcore) but with almost the same core; few but indelible gigs, one recorded album and lots of nonsense.

Matt Williams has lived through all this and much more, embodying perfectly how every garage band should be, without frills and without the worries of sounding repetitive and derivative. The Liquids project is on its second work, which, like the previous one, is only a great collection of those pieces published very sparsely and lo-fi over the last 4 years.

~Power pop-Hardcore Punk-Devo Core~