It’s that bright-edged darkness, like jumping up and down on a tightrope over highway, that thing that makes me move, that makes me want to listen, want to dance. Document have it in their new EP Reset Your Mind. Definitely worth a listen… if you like that post-punk 80s sound.
Not everybody does, and that’s OK. Lots of different music around to catch your fancy. This band caught mine. Describing themselves as a “post-punk band from a junkyard in Tel Aviv” Document are: Yaniv Brenner – Guitar; Yehuda Meshulam – Guitar; Barack Sharabi – Synth; Nir Ben Jacob – Vocals, Bass; Amir Reich – Drums. You may have run into these guys before… as Modern Tapes. Bands re-invent themselves, that’s what they do. I like this invention.
Now we can get into the whole “sounds like” conversation, but I don’t really care to enter into the originality debate. Does a song grab me or not – that’s what I want to know. Document launched their EP at the Barby on March 17th and from the number of people singing along, it seems they’ve already accrued a following of sorts.
They have at least one single going strong, Where You Are, that has a rough mystery and rhythmic appeal going for it, Turnstile has won me over with its drag me through the dirt optimism – and the videos for these songs are a must-see.
Other songs, like Basic, come from a quieter, eerier, place, yet no less interesting to explore.
What Document needs to do now is take these songs on the road and let them go through the rough and tumble refinement of the listening people – and that is what they are doing. Following up on their Barby concert (where the very solid rock band Bucharest opened), they will be performing at the upcoming Pasáž Manic MonDay’s session on April 7th.
Links:
Document bandcamp, facebook page, Manic MonDay’s event
