by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Best known for playing drums in the great Squitch (as well as lending vocals to The Chives), Boston’s Denzil Leach is also a great solo musician, with a few EPs and singles released thus far. Their latest EP, Hot Shot, is due out October 1st via Erased! Tapes (Damien Scalise, Birthday Ass, Creative Healing), a wonderfully lo-fi and slightly blown out mix of fuzz punk and basement sludge. It’s brash and loud but filled with a radiant spirit, an effort that feels ramshackle and care free in all the right ways.
On any EP where every song could be a great single, we’re given “My Body” as our introduction to the record, a song that cracks open with a uproarious tone and a scuzz soaked melody that’s heavy on the melody. It’s a song buried in distortion but it’s the dive bombing vocal refrains that really pull everything together. Constantly drifting along the lines of falling apart, Leach keeps everything perfectly where it should be, with big anti-hooks that resonate as well as any “proper” hooks. It’s a delightful clamor, punchy in its raw production style (we wouldn’t have it any other way) yet accessible and unbelievably catchy.