Sunpower - Bondage - LP
Label: Crucial Attack Records
Colored Vinyl
Price: 7.99 Euro
The new record of Belgium's Sunpower is now available. Bondage was recorded in 2 days and mixed in 2 evenings, as a punk record should be and gives us 10 new songs with the genuine Sunpower sound… Don't expect any weird chord progressions, it's what you could expect of Sunpower, hardcore punk reminding of bands like Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat and Angry Samoans, played with furious energy and fast paced lyrics that deal with subjects as Guantanamo Bay, rednecks and leather boots. Bondage is the third record of Sunpower and, as cliché as it might sound, their most mature to date.
The record comes in a few variations, there's the 12" coming on 33RPM with on both sides 10 songs and there's some limited colored vinyl of this one available too, but be fast for those! Then there's also a 45RPM edition, limited to 200 copies and this has 5 songs on each side. The CD contains 4 bonustracks of the so-called Westvleteren sessions.
For those unfamiliar with Sunpower yet, it was the summer of 2002. The queen mother dies, Everybody's still fucked over by the 9/11 airplanes crash, 200 people are killed during a bomb-attack on the island of Bali and a little country called Belgium hasn't changed a bit since the Wilfried Martens, Jean Luc Dehaene, Guy Verhofstad administration. Mike Dubois, a real punkrock dude from the old school remembers the time that he was playing in a fast forward, no-nonsense band called "Les Stroumphs Alcooliques". He remembers those times and says: "those were the days". He picks up his guitar, calls his former bassplayer Gerd Vanhoof and find Jerre, an old-time friend who just bought himself a drumset. They finish 7 songs and record short after it. Fast fucked up songs for fast fucked up people: "BACK TO BASICS"', which also became the title of their first EP, released in April 2003. After a short while Mike became sick of playing the guitar and Jerre left the band to become a duathlon legend. Sunpower picked up Davy and Kevin, fucked up loners from the younger generation and the rest became history.
Tracklist:
01. Bondage
02. Redneck Talk
03. Nihilistic
04. Frozen, Passed Out, Broken
05. At The Station
06. The Anti-Scene
07. Leather Boots
08. Nop Means No
09. We Don't Talk Anymore
10. When The Spirit's Gone
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