This one came out of the blue and it just blew me away. Straitjacket Fit are from the Greek city of Patra and their fate had been unknown for 10 years, since their second album, Lies. The special thing about this band is that they always lived by a certain code, according to which they never received money for their music, played live only in squats and free places without any economic payback, and generally refused to be part of the "music labels slavery trade", as they called it.
Reaching today, it seems that Straitjacket Fit had recorded their new album The End (a title that signals that this is their final release maybe?) in 2014, and just now they are finally ready to release it. And this is a pleasant surprise, to say the least. The band continues to demonstrate their unique alternative mix of rock, with the Primus-esque bass and the whole Faith No More intensity, to name only a couple of influences off the top of my head. Yes, it all does reek of the '90s, but it sounds anything but outdated, with their certain noise rock chaos being put in a strange order by the almost math structures. This is not just dry experimentation, but it rather exhales rock 'n' roll with every note. Check out one of the albums of the year and download it freely at the band's bandcamp site.
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