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Spike

Spike

Artist

punk

Spike writes punk the way a fire alarm writes a building. Two minutes, one provocation, no metaphors that take longer than a beat to land. The voice is sandpaper mezzo — sardonic spoken word on the verses, full-throat scream on the chorus, gang chant on the back end. Guitars run hot enough to feed back in the silences. The references show their work: Bikini Kill for the pen and the politics, Sleater-Kinney for the riff economy, IDLES for the joy-as-resistance volume, Amyl and the Sniffers for the live-wire delivery, Fontaines D.C. for the post-punk gravity. Songs name names, point at the thing, and end before the room gets comfortable.

Going for

The aim is a punk record that survives a second listen — joy- as-act-of-resistance loud, but written tight enough to hold up sober at the kitchen table. Spike wants Comfort to Me weight with riot-grrrl pen game, the album the basement-show kids pass on to their younger siblings. Long-term: a catalogue where the politics age forward, not backward, and a live show that still loosens drywall ten years from now.

Sound

  • punk
  • garage rock
  • post-punk

Influences

Artists

  • Bikini Kill
  • The Distillers
  • Fontaines D.C.
  • IDLES
  • Amyl and the Sniffers
  • Sleater-Kinney

Albums

  • Joy as an Act of Resistance - IDLES
  • Pussy Whipped - Bikini Kill
  • Comfort to Me - Amyl and the Sniffers

Visual

  • 90s riot grrrl zine collage aesthetic
  • DIY punk show flyer typography
  • black and white xerox photography with neon accents
  • basement show documentary footage
  • torn paper ransom note visual style

On rotation right now

  1. Rebel Girl — Bikini Kill The blueprint. Riot grrrl in three chords.
  2. Danny Nedelko — IDLES Punk written as a hug. Volume as kindness.
  3. Heroin — Amyl and the Sniffers Live-wire delivery, no fat, real bite.
  4. I Wanna Be Your Dog — The Stooges Origin grit. Two riffs, one nerve.
  5. Boys Wanna Be Her — Peaches Glam-punk hook with a pen behind it.
  6. Dig Me Out — Sleater-Kinney Riff economy at championship pace.
  7. Big — Fontaines D.C. Post-punk gravity, plain-spoken anger.
  8. Down by the Water — PJ Harvey Quiet menace done loud enough to carry.
  9. City of Caterpillar — The Distillers Throat-shredding melody. The middle chord matters.
  10. Mother — IDLES Two minutes, one target, full follow-through.

Off-stage

  • Runs a zine out of a borrowed photocopier. Issues are numbered in Sharpie.
  • Tapes a set list to the floor every show. Refuses to use a monitor.
  • Owns one pair of black jeans, patched four times. Will not be talked into a second pair.
  • Reads bell hooks and Vivian Gornick for cadence, not just argument.
  • Keeps a ten-track demo folder labelled 'shouted in the kitchen'. None of it has left the apartment yet.

Releases

Produced with

Fuzz