Shady Nasty unearth latest offering ‘HARDSTYLE’
PRAISE FOR Shady Nasty
“Shady Nasty’s music has always sounded like an engine revving: all menacing snarls and noxious guitars through a pungent fog of exhaust”
“The trio’s sound is as inscrutable as ever: lyrics are written like text exchanges between gym junkies while the instrumentals are jenga towers of hip-hop beats, slowcore guitars and punk vocals”
“Jittery and tense blasts of sketchy rock that sounds like kids born in the late 90s have discovered some early Helmet or Mark of Cain records. This is good rowdy stuff”
“The Australian trio's sound can turn on a dime between ethereally pretty and menacingly dark”
“The atmosphere is unsettling in a similar way to Show Me The Body’s songs”
“Rare units and they're not afraid to mess with your ears”
“When people say there's no band quite like Shady Nasty in Australia, it's not some hyperbole or over-exaggeration”
‘HARDSTYLE’ is out now, buy/stream it here.
Ahead of their upcoming appearance at SXSW Sydney, alternative punk outfit Shady Nasty uncover their latest musical trove ‘HARDSTYLE’ from the depths of the vault. LISTEN + WATCH HERE.
Written in 2019 and re-recorded earlier this year, ‘HARDSTYLE’ is a melancholy recount of flimsy early-twenties bravado that falls apart through ill health. Where the genre tends to score vigorous exercise, ‘HARDSTYLE’ exchanges aggressive basslines, fast kicks and hyper-active vocals for an introspective soundscape. Tough in tenderness, it’s trademark off-kilter Shady Nasty.
‘HARDSTYLE’ is just the latest extension of Kevin Stathis, Haydn Green and Luca Watson’s intrigue with their own existential place as young men. Playfully manipulating the parameters of masculinity and punk music, ‘HARDSTYLE’ is the prologue of Shady Nasty’s discography, delineating their journey from melodic to augmented, hard and soft to arrive at their idiosyncratic approach.
Shady Nasty are a band that operates on an oxymoron – a post-punk outfit whose most popular songs (‘Get Buff‘, ‘R0LL1N’ H1LLZ‘, ‘PRETTYB0YZ‘) circulate on calm, sombre melodies that balance both electronic and hip hop driven impulses. Anthropologists of their own world, their music is rife with intelligent observations about the growing blur between their online and offline identities. Their earlier ‘G-SHOCK’, described as “a paean to escapism” in The Guardian’s Best Australian Music column together with ‘CHEST HEIGHT’, are just some of the recent examples of Shady Nasty’s refraction of growing pains into social commentary through their enduring motif – a serious, long-term relationship with cars.
Hot off a searing set at Off The Rails festival alongside Amyl and The Sniffers, RVG, Private Functionand others, experience the Shady Nasty adherence live across October at SXSW Sydney, Parramatta Lanes and more – see all tour routing details below.
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