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Parastatic feat. Late Girl "A building is a weapon"

Parastatic CONCRETE REBORN

I realize this is my blog with my own thoughts, but I like this song, and instead of trying to come up with different way of saying the same thing I think I'll just quote the blog where I found this band and this album:

The new record from Newcastle’s Parastatic really shouldn’t work. Concrete Reborn is a post-punk, noise-rock, art-rock concept album about… brutalist architecture. It’s the kind of idea that sounds like a parody of a Pitchfork review. I’m here to tell you: it works. Does it ever. Concrete Reborn is dense, beautiful, political, and deeply strange.

I really could not have said it any better myself, so why should I?

Because, yeah, I agree with Turn & Work, when it comes to this song and this album: this shouldn't work, and yet, it does!

First, I hope you enjoy this track, and secondly, I hope you check out and enjoy Turn & Work. They don't know me and I don't know them, but I've really been enjoying their blog since I discovered it a couple of weeks ago.

Enjoy!

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