Billy Bao - Buildings From Bilbao

Billy Bao - Buildings From Bilbao
Label: Burka For Everybody
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Spain
Released: 2012
Style: Hardcore, Experimental

"If rock’n’roll was the sound of the city, then Billy Bao are the sound of the unemployment line, the empty backyards and the dark hidden places of that city.
Concrete interferences provide a backdrop that alludes to the class war that emerged in Bilbao.

After some line up changes, Billy Bao gives sound to this landscape by exceeding horizontally the nihilistic and individualistic discourse of noise: with 9ice, Flipper, Bobby Sox, an unstable afrobeat, the visceral freak outs of Red Krayola and distorted blues, as if Jimi Hendrix jammed withThrobbing Gristle, while Peter Brötzmann plays with his sax in the toilet. After their last record, released in Parts Unknown and Pan, they ended up in Burka For Everybody and Terminal Picnic."

Review by Elvis Von Doom.