10000 Russos – Kompromat LP

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180g vinyl. For Indie stores only.. Kompromat is the third album from Portuguese trio 10 000 Russos. Though tapping into the same transcendental minimalism of bands like Neu!, Suicide and Faust, 10 000 Russos have a sound that is solely their own: Joo Pimenta’s machine-like percussion and brooding vocal drawls sound like a cyborg Mark E. Smith drearily narrating the end-of-times atop the abrasive guitar manipulations and experimental loops of Pedro Pestana and driving, motorik basslines that are seemingly summoned from the most depraved corners of Andr Coutos psyche. The heaving propulsions of album-opener It Grows Under explore a general unrest slowly growing inside, a kind-of pre-revolution tension and Runnin Escapin is about random unpredictable situations and the volatility inherent in them, something thats borne out as the song unfolds throughout its running time. Then theres the aptly-named The People, a throbbing call-to-arms that tackles the albums revolutionary spirit head-on and The Wheel, which they say is about the eternal motion of things and the repetition of history.