by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
The stark minimalism of Austin’s Wet Dip is immediately enticing. The sound is bare bones yet vehemently abrasive. The nowhere to hind method leaves every ramshackle rhythmic choice and blistering no-wave distortion tendency ringing with exceeding volume. It’s raw but full of space, which in turn only makes it sound even more raw. Comprised of sisters Sylvia Rodriguez (vocals, guitar, bass) and Erica Rodriguez (drums) together with Daniel Doyle (guitar, bass), the trio following a promising demo with Smell of Money, their full length debut, out November 10th via Feel It Records (Erik Nervous, Citric Dummies, Why Bother?).
With songs in both English and Spanish, the duel linguistic approach seems to add impact to Sylvia Rodriguez’s words, adding emphasis to tone and intensity, adapting from song to song to meet the matter at hand. “Finale,” sung in Spanish, is built on a sinewy creak of atonal guitar scrambles, deeply rubbery bass, and a general barn burning lack of subtlety. It’s simplistic in shape but the animalistic nature of the attack and the general openness of the structure give it a nightmare-in-real-time sort of dexterity. It sounds both distant yet pissed, detached but full of fury.