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Format Details:
Release Date: 10 October 2025
Label: This Charming Man Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4059251682448
Description
Crack is radical reduction - For their second album, the Berlin band stripped away all differences and embellishments, recording a punk album in their rehearsal space that needs no further genre labels. DIY isn't a gimmick here but an unavoidable necessity - Crack was made without a studio, without a producer, and without a clue.
SEX BEAT approaches punk with historical awareness, drawing from a wide range of influences, from Oblivians and Suicide to Hot Snakes. Sonically, they take cues from the '90s Dischord Records catalog: bass and drums drive forward, while guitar and vocals spit and snarl in between.
The songs shift between being heavily fragmented and mechanical to intricately crafted, but they always remain raw and unfiltered. Lyrically, it's all about what grinds your gears: broken politics, broken society, and all the little broken things within ourselves.
References range from Gordon Solie Motherfkers** ("Give them a dirty floor for a stage. A five bucks show and I'm stoked for days") to George Orwell ("Four legs good, two legs bad"). And in the end, even Grammy winner Beck gets a nod, because overarching it all is: "You make me wanna try crack."
FFO: OFF!, The Make Up, Parquet Courts, Uranium Club
Tracklisting
Sex Beat
Ultra Nothing
Leatherman
Phantom Winter
Mouth
Mountain Witch
Mountain Witch
Mountain Witch
Sex Beat
Problem Patterns
Bowling For Soup
Angelic Upstarts
Wau Y Los Arrrghs!!!
Salvador Costa
Black Bacon
Big Boys/The Dicks
