DEAFBRICK by DEAFKIDS & PETBRICK

"A truly thrilling record." The Quietus

"Assault on the senses." REVOLVER Magazine

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The new decade is only a few months old, and already the only certainty is that certainties have ceased to exist. Yet as we traverse through new and intimidating terrain unfamiliar a short while ago, two collaborators have come together to unwittingly create a record curiously suited to an intimidating and unpredictable new era, in which both its vibrant spirit of collaboration and the uncompromising intensity of its aural assault render it life-affirming against all adversity that surrounds. ‘Deafbrick’, the multiplication sum of Säo Paulo’s sonic warriors Deafkids and London’s pulverising duo Petbrick is less a polite meeting of minds than a fiery collision whose impact and incandescence extend beyond the horizon.

The project first came to light by way of a collaboration at Roadburn Festival, which in itself was the result of the friendship between Deafkids and Petbrick’s Iggor Cavalera (also of Sepultura/Soulwax/Cavalera Conspiracy) who had met the band in London. “For Roadburn we just did a few versions of our own songs but as a five piece” says Petbrick’s Wayne Adams (also of Big Lad/Death Pedals). “We had so much fun doing the collab and there was a real chemistry between the five of us, so it seemed like a natural progression to actually get into a studio together and write a record.”

“After we saw how cool our connection was, we decided to go for a complete three days of total exchange of ideas in the studio, without limitations or preconceptions. Total freedom.” relates Iggor. Indeed, ‘Deafbrick’ is manifestly both a record audibly alive with the sparks of ideas coalescing in real time, yet also a fierce statement whose confidence and coherence belies its spontaneous origins. “We managed to pull together 80% of the record in three days” notes Wayne. “Deafkids where over for a show so we managed to carve out a bit of time in all our diaries and jumped in. It was an amazing session - everyone was on top form and the creativity was flowing! I think I had done a couple of really basic electronic riffs to give us a starting point but within a couple of hours we were flying.”

The results run the gamut through a litany of uniformly invigorating audial landscapes - notably operating blithely unaware of all or any genre trappings or classifications, this is an arena where Deafkids’ appetite for lysergic punk-damaged tumult, Petbrick’s ventures into dystopian synth-driven soundscapes, and both bands’s common fearless drive into in-the-red overload can all happily engage in gladiatorial contest. From the unearthly percussive clangour of ‘Hyperkinetic Mass Disorder’ to the frenetic future-core assault of ‘Máquina Obssessivo-Compulsiva’ and from the eerie cinematic intensity of ‘The Menace Of The Dark Polar Night’ to the DHR-addled chaos of the paint-stripping ‘Mega Ritual’, every second of ‘Deafbrick’ is infused with malevolent charisma and iconoclastic élan.

Yet perhaps the ultimate destructive moment of this particular demolition derby comes via a thrilling take on Discharge’s ‘Free Speech For The Dumb’, on which Casual Nun’s Matt Ridout and Terminal Cheesecake/Luminous Bodies’ Gordon Watson join the fray for a fearsome blast of noise-driven monomaniacal nihilism curiously redolent of the early ornery joys of Shit And Shine. Not that it necessarily met the approval of Discharge themselves, who make a cameo appearance on the song’s outro. “I asked them to record some quotes saying how much they hated our version” laughs Iggor. “One of them even said that Metallica did a better job. That really freaked me out!”

Metallica, it’s fair to say objectively, do not do a better job.

Tracklist

1.	Primeval I	3:27

2.	Força Bruta	2:17

3.	Sweat-Drenched Wreck	4:39

4.	The Menace of the Dark Polar Night	4:49

5.	Máquina Obssessivo-Compulsiva	3:41

6.	O Antropoceno	5:07

7.	Mega-Ritual	2:36

8.	Hyperkinetic Mass Disorder	2:35

9.	Free Speech for the Dumb	7:30

10.	Primeval II	2:28

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Credits

released September 4, 2020

Recorded and Mixed by Wayne Adams in October 2019 at Bear Bites Horse studio in London/UK. DFKDS vocals from tracks 2, 5 and 7 recorded at Estúdio Jukebox by André Leal and Kleber Mariano in Volta Redonda/BRA. Produced by DFKDS and PETBRICK. Mastering by James Plotkin. All songs by DEAFBRICK except for "Free Speech", originally by Discharge. Guest guitars on "Hyperkinetic Mass Disorder" and "Free Speech" by Gordon Watson and Matt Ridout. Guest voices at the of "Free Speech" by Discharge. Artwork by Douglas Leal.

DEAFBRICK are Iggor Cavalera, Marcelo dos Santos, Mariano de Melo, Douglas Leal and Wayne Adams.

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