Clear History Bad Advice, Good People
- Format
12 Inch LP
Black
£14.00
‘Still so confused, I guess that’s your prerogative, only the truth, I guess that’s too provocative’.
Clear History pair an infectiously danceable rhythm section with sparse, lean guitar work and dual vocals that revel in an impassioned back and forth. Sitting somewhere between a latter-day Fugazi and The Evens, Clear History understand how to inexorably engrain their grooves in the listener’s mind, and how to seamlessly blend moments of quiet introspection with raucous explosions of anger. Bad Advice, Good People will have you singing along in the drop of a match.
Clear History are a scorching post-punk trio from Berlin who make a big deal out of little things, sometimes vice versa. Their influences include correct grammar, Rihanna & ‘Waiting Room’ by Fugazi. They make muscular songs about intimacy whilst dreaming of an extravagant breakfast the day after the rapture. What will the dance floors look like over there? What music will ring true and make the people move? Clear History are giving this their full attention!
Clear History’s debut EP is entitled ‘bad advice good people’ and will be released by Upset The Rhythm on November 5th 2022. The six songs here cast a huge net across themes of raucous opposition, identity, closeness, gifting and exploding cars. They are a full-hearted call to arms from a stubborn Aries concerned with wasting time and energy. With such rapport for the touchstones of danceable post-punk (ESG, Kleenex, Gang of Four) Clear History are proud hi-hat botherers, bounding along with the plummy bassline, joining the dots whilst thinking to the beat. This debut documents the tantalising first sparks from a band intent on holding up a magnifying glass to the sun.
—Upset The Rhythm
