Running: Asshole Savant (Vinyl LP)
Captcha Records
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Chicago has been home to a vibrant noise punk scene since the early days of punk. The bands come and go without much notice outside the city limits, but occasionally there's a band the world at large needs to hear. Running are that band you need to know. After a series of very limited tapes and a debut LP on Permanent Records, they are about to unleash quite the epic noise rock LP on Captcha Records, entitled Asshole Savant. Think krautrock-damaged punk on speed or maybe art-bent noisecore. Running are an incendiary blast of rock ' roll akin to smashing Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music into the Stooges and then smashing that combo into Suicide. Maybe the wall of noise and blown-out production of Running's Asshole Savant isn't up your alley, but songs like I Can't Believe I'm Alive and Kalehead are the perfect mix of screeching feedback and thrashy punk. Crank up the volume on your half-broken thrift store stereo system and imagine you're at a seedy warehouse in Chicago drinking beer with all your friends. Listen to I'm Can't Believe I'm Alive below and go buy a copy of Asshole Savant on Record Store Day at your favorite local music shop. Captcha didn't press up very many, so don't sleep on it. -Jonathan Markley, Get Bent
Chicago has been home to a vibrant noise punk scene since the early days of punk. The bands come and go without much notice outside the city limits, but occasionally there's a band the world at large needs to hear. Running are that band you need to know. After a series of very limited tapes and a debut LP on Permanent Records, they are about to unleash quite the epic noise rock LP on Captcha Records, entitled Asshole Savant. Think krautrock-damaged punk on speed or maybe art-bent noisecore. Running are an incendiary blast of rock ' roll akin to smashing Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music into the Stooges and then smashing that combo into Suicide. Maybe the wall of noise and blown-out production of Running's Asshole Savant isn't up your alley, but songs like I Can't Believe I'm Alive and Kalehead are the perfect mix of screeching feedback and thrashy punk. Crank up the volume on your half-broken thrift store stereo system and imagine you're at a seedy warehouse in Chicago drinking beer with all your friends. Listen to I'm Can't Believe I'm Alive below and go buy a copy of Asshole Savant on Record Store Day at your favorite local music shop. Captcha didn't press up very many, so don't sleep on it. -Jonathan Markley, Get Bent