Frana’s new album Disastersss sways between tricksy dissonances and unwavering directness finding its strength in deliberate genre shifts. The band’s style is doubtlessly inspired by holy monsters of noise/post-punk such as Hot Snakes, Unsane, Slint, Shellac, Hüsker Du, Unwound and Metz, but there’s a lot of identity in it. Vocals evoke the pioneers of D.C. styled post-hardcore. Talking about lyrics, Disastersss traces a self-medication path that dwells into the very human feeling of uncertainty, hiding meanings in goofy metaphors and majestically failing in its original healing intent. Wor(l)ds might get a little dark sometimes, but don’t have to be taken too seriously, as the track titles suggest. “Disastersss” is out December 18th via Antena Krzyku (PL), Day Off ...
