As heard on their new track out today, the Raleigh post-punk band RIBS are like a harder, meaner, spacier Hold Steady, mixing classic rock riffs with Mike Wallace’s spoken and shouted narration. After a long and accomplished tenure as a live act, RIBS released their debut album Junk Dynasty Leaderboard last year. They’re putting out their second, COLD RIBS, this summer via the great North Carolina indie institution Three Lobed, whose Cory Rayborn seemed to have a lot of fun describing the band in a note to Bandcamp followers today:
During my years of fandom for this project, I keep coming back to the concept of a Southern Mark E. Smith vibrating and over-caffeinated through too much Bojangle’s sweet tea while riffing over and band with influences as varied as Fugazi, Faust, This Heat and Protomartyr is a one of kind thing. Their nod to Led Beefheart on the sticker isn’t far off, either.
The lead single from COLD RIBS is the humorously titled “Not A Boogie.” The guitar loop slices and dices with style. The drumbeat slaps. The bass grooves hard. Over top of this rhythmic chaos, Wallace rants and raves with urgency and charisma. It’s one of the best songs I’ve pressed play on this year, so don’t skip it.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Decomp In The Field”
02 “Not A Boogie”
03 “Medicine / Medicisn’t”
04 “High Fives Of The Four Horsemen”
05 “In The Rushlight”
06 “Cold Daylight”
07 “Paperwork”
08 “Crashing Machine”
09 “Strange Victories”
10 “Working In Shoes”
COLD RIBS is out 8/21 on Three Lobed. Pre-order it here.
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