{"id":12971,"date":"2020-08-21T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2020-08-20T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T19:05:03","slug":"knowso-specialtronics-green-vision-drunken-sailor-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12971","title":{"rendered":"Knowso &#8211; &#8216;Specialtronics Green Vision&#8217; (Drunken Sailor Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12972 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Debut album from Clevelands Knowso sees the punks dish up a record that&#8217;s spiky in your face full of challenging punk where they&#8217;ve been influenced by the likes of Fugazi, No means No, Devo Black Flag and other such luminaries of the US scene.<\/p>\n<p>Take second track in &#8216;Chosen Sun&#8217; and its complex time changes it&#8217;s not a sloppy three-chord smash it out that&#8217;s for sure. Lyrics that mean something and bass lines that poke and jar at the listener juping out from the verses and poking rather than swinging punches.<\/p>\n<p>Cuts like \u2018Calamine\u2019 is a great hight end bass-thumping, jarring and slicing that slashes like Devo if they were full of\u00a0fury.<\/p>\n<p>They use tapes and try to fuck with the listeners head with &#8216;Wrong Calculator&#8217; being a fitting example. They then get a bit funky with the jazzy &#8216;Peaceful &amp; Extinct&#8217; as they throw in some serious time changes and keep a tight ship on those changes whilst throwing in everything including the kitchen sink into the chaos. This record is like a Heston Bloomenthal creation what you see on the outside isn&#8217;t necessarily what flavour is on the inside once you take a bite. &#8216;Digital God&#8217; is a good example.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the ten tracks in one sitting is at time punishing and I found myself drifting mentally maybe you have to physically prepare like an athlete and this isn&#8217;t a record you can enjoy cold without warming up.\u00a0 Maybe small bursts to begin with before building up to a full-on takedown of Knowso. I guess it was always there to fuck with you and they do that and the bass is an audio assault for sure constantly jabbing a punching your ears.\u00a0 Ajit punks need only apply, is there a genre for Math punk yet? Its alternative I know that much.<\/p>\n<p>Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/drunkensailorrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/specialtronics-green-vision-lp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debut album from Clevelands Knowso sees the punks dish up a record that&#8217;s spiky in your face full of challenging punk where they&#8217;ve been influenced by the likes of Fugazi, No means No, Devo Black Flag and other such luminaries of the US scene. Take second track in &#8216;Chosen Sun&#8217; and its complex time changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3100,5636,5635],"class_list":["post-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-drunken-sailor-records","tag-juice-man","tag-knowso","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13115,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions\/13115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}