Returning with their second album, London noise-rock trio Comanechi are preparing to lay waste to St. Valentine with the ferocious ‘You Owe Me Nothing But Love’. Expanding to a three-piece with the addition of drummer Charlie – who joins former The Big Pink and PRE star Keex (vocals/drums/guitar) and Simon (guitar/bass) – the new album follows their unrelenting and wildly acclaimed debut ‘Crime Of Love’, dripping with the primordial ooze of the trio’s beloved noise, metal and punk forebears.
The album features this summer’s comeback single ‘Major Move’ (released through Gossip’s Fast Weapons label), plus 11 new tracks of barbarous punk rock. The centrepiece is eight-minute-long ‘Patsy’, an unmitigated and darkly punishing takedown of its target.
Comanechi took a different approach to songwriting on ‘You Owe Me…’, spending time outside the rehearsal room working on developing their rough-and-ready assaultive ideas into concise, exacting statements, expanding their cannon with almost-ballad ‘Into the Air’ and the black metal-laced ‘Death Threat’. Most vitally, they never forget that their strengths lie in the gleefully primitive guitar grind and tribal, instinctive drumming that form the crux of their powers.
In 2012 they played live with The Drums, Gossip and Dum Dum Girls.
LATEST PRESS:
‘It’s probably a bit of a crap and old-fashioned sentiment, but: wouldn’t it be nice if MTV did away with stuff like ‘Olly Murs Fan Test’ and played videos like this instead?’ (The Guardian stream)
Dazed & Confused stream
PRESS FOR ‘CRIME OF LOVE’:
‘Comanechi are extraordinary. Their debut long player crams more wayward excitement, visceral thrills
and variety than you could hope for from a post-millennial punk record, manna from heaven’ (BBC Music)
‘Comanechi’s genius is encapsulated with their unique ability to tantalize and torment within a single
breath’ (NME, 9/10)
‘The perfect balance of sweetness and aggression’ (Loud & Quiet, 9/10)
‘Kicks hugely enjoyable and cathartic ass’ (Time Out, 4/5)
Vice, 8/10
Rough Trade Shop Album of the Week – Dec 2009
LIVE DATES:
Fri 1st Feb @ Marquis Of Landsdowne, LONDON (Single Launch Party)
14th-24th Feb – Japanese tour w/ Bo Ningen
Sat 13th Apr – LIMBO, Voodoo Rooms, EDINBURGH (w/United Fruit & Vasquez)
Sun 14th Apr – Nice’N’Sleazy, GLASGOW (w/ Divorce)
Stream new single ‘Dream of Dream’ HERE.
