As has become tradition on February 14th, DBoy celebrated the anniversaries of their two previous LPs Prove Your Love (Live In Belem) and “the record that not even a global pandemic could erase”, 2020’s New Records In Human Power, with the release of their new four track EP Post Modern Trash.
Whilst opening and closing songs ‘Chinese Restaurants’ and ‘Suburban Bones’ are straight to the point lessons in blustering, garage punk ‘n’ roll, lyrics such as “you don’t understand the tongue in tongue in cheek” or “you die in your sleep every Sunday morning” leave interpretation entirely open to the listener – answers on a postcard please. ‘Southern Drawl sees the band take a step away from the one to two-minute-long ragers and unlike its predecessor New Records… which saw twelve tracks spread out over just nineteen minutes, Post Modern Trash only consists of only four tracks clocking in at approximately eleven minutes.
Title track and first single ‘Post Modern Trash’ pushes the boundaries even further with a run time of just over an epic four minutes. Opening with a reminder of the thirteen-point programme to which all DBoy Scouts (their die-hard fans) must abide by, the song soon rips back into the sneering, care free anthem that it is. If DBoy’s aesthetic or Ass Cobra era sound weren’t enough to flaunt their Turbonegro worship, then look no further than the song ending that may or may not have been directly lifted from Turbo’s ‘Get It On’.
With their semi-secretive nature and more gimmicks than you can shake a stick at be it gimp masks, backwards playing records or mocking Russian media censorship, it’s easy to see how DBoy may not be everyone’s cup of tea and potentially limiting themselves as a cult worthy “if you know, you know” band, further enhanced by the fact that the EP was recorded with Steve Albini of Big Black / Shellac fame. But regardless of gimmicks, one thing hold true and that’s that Post Modern Trash proves itself to be one of the fastest and most audacious releases of the year.