fanny kaplan: s/t

Fanny Kaplan are a female trio who formed in Moscow in 2012. The follow-up to 2014's Plastilin LP, this self-titled six-tracker of spikey two-to-three minute songs hones their previous experimentations into a post-punk/no wave/krautrock mix, all underpinned with a punk urgency. Killer basslines that range from Rema-Rema style brutalism to a throbbing Metal Box-era Wobble metronome anchored with innovative, unorthodox drumming, and topped off with bitter melodies and arcane, otherworldly synth lines. Self-confessed post-riot grrls in attitude rather than musical style, this is a unique, darkly subversive record.