Crushing & Hugpunch live at Studenterhuset!

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Crushing plays immediate, noisy, and primitive guitar music. With both feet planted in no-wave inspired post rock, the project is an honest, both humorous and painful, gouging into old, deep wounds that expose intimate insecurities about body, sex, longing, and grief.

At the core of Crushing lie two desires: to describe personal, human experiences as they are - Grimy. Fleshy. Decayed. Soaked in blood, sweat, snot, and tears. - and to detach from bodily limitations and urges, to step outside and witness the comedy in bared gums, sunken cheeks, and clenched fists.

Few rudimentary guitar chords ham-fistedly follow the blazing rhythms, sometimes more akin to the skipping of a broken record. The heavy subject matter is emphasized by agonized screams and atonal outbursts, contrasting the otherwise care-free and at times almost joyed demeanor. It is hard-hitting yet impotent, callous yet thin-skinned, heavy yet laughable.

HUGPUNCH

HUGPUNCH embraces simplistic, intuitive, guitar driven song writing in the shadow of emo rock. The band takes you on an honest, humorous soul searching quest through a kingdom of intimate heaviness. They sing sad songs with smiles on their faces.

HUGPUNCH is the name of ture and throu’s joint venture. An all star affiliate of Mary Anne's Polar Rig and Bathouse, for fans of Ovlov, Hovvdy, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE and the like. The band was formed on a fateful September night after a Trader-concert at Plan B in Malmö. Blown away by the near perfect execution of a genre they love, Jesper and Harald started digging through their voice memos of cheesy midwest guitar riffs and started writing music together.

The songs on this EP were written a few weekends later, during an intensive one day recording session with the ambition to write a whole album in a day. HUGPUNCH approaches the saturated field of sad/slow indie rock with a sense of guilty pleasure and, putting their more experimental ambitions aside, focus on the sheer fun of together building further on established songwriting traditions.