Returning from 2010’s critically acclaimed ‘Sex W/Strangers’ EP, Exit_International’s Fudge Wilson (bass/vocals), Adam Thomas (drums/percussion), and Scott Lee Andrews (vocals/bass) prepare to unleash their debut full album, Black Junk, on 19 September. The band promise that their EP was, ‘Just a taste of the embryonic promise of things to come!’
From the 48 second blast of ‘Blindfolds’ to the brooding, creepy expanse of ‘King Of The Junkies’ Black Junk have been described as, ‘Rabid, off-kilter, filthy punk rock’ – think the Pixies combined with Motorhead, the sonics of Girls Against Boys and the nerve-splitting post-hardcore volatility of the Blood Brothers. Opener, ‘Glory Horn’ was originally released as a split-single to celebrate a UK tour with Antlered Man quickly becoming a crowd favourite, whilst ‘Bowie’s Ghost’, the band’s first video displays the trio’s uncanny knack for combining the short-sharp-shock treatment with their unmistakable visceral sound.
Recorded in a chaotic 72 hour chemical haze, Black Junk is a guitarless tour-de-force containing just over 30 minutes of urgent, blister-fuzz future rock n’ roll. With ex-60ft Dolls drummer Carl Bevan behind the decks, the band re-recorded tracks ‘Sex W/Strangers’, ‘Chainsaw Song’ and ‘Lights Out’ from their previous EP with added intensity and fervour.
The last 12 months have seen the band from obscurity to ‘ones to watch’ in the UK and the US, with resulting (PA destroying) appearances on the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading and Leeds, 2000 Trees, Guilfest, Leopallooza, Merthyr Rock festivals and sessions recorded for BBC Radio 1 Introducing – including their (now) infamous cover of Nirvana’s ‘Territorial Pissings’.
While tours with Monster Magnet, Blitz Kids, Ginger Wildheart, Pulled Apart By Horses, Gay For Johnny Depp, Future Of The Left, The Bronx, and others spread the carnage of Exit_ International’s live performance, Black Junk is set to take that carnage into your very own bedroom with its limitless duel-bass fronted noise-rock.
Check out the fuss by downloading EI’s ‘Voices’ HERE
Black Junk tracklist:
01. Glory Horn
02. Sex W/ Strangers
03. Voices
04. Shake Your Bad Ass
05. Bowie’s Ghost
06. Body Joyrider
07. Sherman Fang
08. Chainsaw Song
09. My Mouth Is Your Mouth
10. Lights Out
11. King Of The Junkies
12. Blindfolds
13. Hey Disciple
