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S.B.S.M. (noise-dark wave/Oakland-califonia-USA)
The synth-based aural assault of Oakland’s SBSM could be considered no wave or dark wave or noise or post-punk, but their experimental and impressionistic musical ruminations defy easy categorization. The crew steering the SBSM ship—electronics captain and second vocalist in command Sep, vocal skipper and electronics first mate Rola, and chief officer of the drums Rosie—strike a harmonious balance between evocative artistry and critical politics. Off stage, Sep and Rosie helm a radio show called “Scream Queens” via 104.1 FM Oakland—which will soon spawn its own magazine—on which Sep says they “play and promote music, art, poetry, zines, and pretty much anything creative that people who aren’t straight white cis men do.” Sep is also the proprietrix of two solo projects, “a goth pop video thing called Placentaur” and an “industrial project called Spitting Images.” SBSM’s last release—the excellent JOY/RAGE EP—came out in April of last year, but they have been “writing new songs,” Rosie says, “which I assume we will record hopefully by summertime. Heavier stuff.”
The music is all experimentation and it doesn’t sound like most other bands. This could have been means for disconnection, but what ended up happening was us building relationships with other bands based on similar politics [and] intentions, as opposed to how we snugly we fit into a genre together. It feels like some kind of intersectionality thing that I can’t necessarily explain.
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