The #zot2016 review continues with the discovery and rediscovery of unheard or barely listened-to records, unjustly left waiting. Today's album is truly a great record that I'm thoroughly enjoying at the moment.

Marching Church - Telling Like It Is (Sacred Bones Records).

Marching Church is the project of Elias Bender Ronnenfelt, and 'Telling Like It Is' is his second LP after the debut 'This World Is Not Enough' and the beautiful 12'' 'Coming Down Session In April'. Devoted to a certain wave music of the 1980s, Elias Bender offers compositions that teeter between the ferocity of Birthday Party and the style of Tuxedomoon, with the simplicity of The Cure. However, his songs, always accompanied by an obsessive use of percussion, clanging noise guitar, the powerful sound of the bass, and noir atmospheres, are true recitals in the style of Nick Cave, the more punk early Jim Carroll, Jim Jones Revue. His expressive strength is undeniable and something that has few equals in the contemporary scene. Suggested for all those who love records by Nick Cave and his entire 'crew': Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, Simon Bonney and Crime & City Solution, Swell Maps, Gallon Drunk, Lydia Lunch, Rowland Howard, etc.

5/5

Marching Church - Heart of Life (Official Music Video)