ADD TO CART Click to add to your cart. You can always remove it later.

Title:  Teenage Mondo Trash Artist:  2UP Label:  Ache Format:  CD Price:  € 12.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
This Japanese duo juxtapose stripped down instrumentation (guitar and drums), with vigorous song structure, polyrhythmic splatter, and artful overload, resulting in a form of punk rock which has been buried under a decade of shameless punk marketing techniques, and manufactured music. Its a punkesque fuck you to method and control, yet there is a precision buried here as well Ð an almost math twist, which will let the listener know that 2UP is anything but novice.
Roaring through sixteen jagged, misshapen pieces of punk rock in less then 30 minutes, Tokyo s 2UP sweat and wiggle wildly. Teenage Mondo Trash will bring to mind the lost art of punk-house energy and screwball spirit.

It is a puzzling and overwhelming experience to say the least. TetsunoriÕs guitar and vocal work are parallel in execution, delivering a dizzying mix of madcap non-sequitors and tonally varied bits of debris. This also overflows into the lyrical pool as well. With lyrics like Is everything okay about wiener coffee? and song titles like Sauce, Rope, Hammer, and Mop, itÕs apparent that 2UP are always teetering on the brink of absurdity.

The two members of 2UP, Tetsunori Tawaraya and Keiichi Nakano, have a rich past in the Japanese hardcore scene. Keiichi (on drums) was the old bassist for legendary Japanese thrash band, Total Fury, while Tetsunori currently plays in a second band while heÕs visiting friends in San Diego, called Dmonstrations (SAF Records). He is also heavily involved in the experimental art scene, designing, painting and creating amazingly illustrated comic books.

Vital Review: