Post-punk, art-punk, kraut-rock. All terms used to describe a particular brand of trippy, muddy, noise driven music that has enjoyed a consistent following since the seventies. New bands come and go but it’s difficult to really make an impact in a style of music which owes so much to such a small pool of pioneering bands. Unfair comparisons are inevitable.
Against all odds, Swedish quartet Sekel have managed to carve out their own personal corner of this fuzzy, distorted landscape after only two years of being active and only one three track EP readily available. Now, they’ve partnered up with London’s own Fuzz Club Records to produce their first long player. The album is due out on the 15th of December, but in the mean time we’ve got Next to Nothing. That’s the name of the track, I wasn’t being clever.
The name is actually taken from a poem by Paul Bowles, and like the poem, the track is themed around the inescapable approach of death. as well as being about the cycles of, as the band themselves put it, “anxiety and liberation”. The tone of the guitar reflects that theme, fluctuation between hopeful rises and dark, grimy descents before Markus Mannberg’s thick, chesty vocal arrives around halfway through the track.
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