Holograms will return on September 3rd with a new LP for Captured Tracks, Forever, the follow-up to last year’s excellent, s/t debut for the label. The Swedish post-punk, four-piece rocketed out of obscurity last year on the weight of tracks like “Chasing My Mind“, “ABC City“, and “Monolith“, all stellar cuts off the debut belying the bands youth, while displaying their keen abilities for forging anthemic, rousing music from broken down equipment and feelings of desolation and poverty. While there’s quite a crop of punk bands emerging from Europe, Iceage, and Lower come to mind as further Scandinavian examples of bands using the genre as a vital weapon to engage their social angst, Holograms’ approach, while dark and uncompromising, seems the more musical and realized of the three. The band’s new single “Flesh & Bone” is a good example, with it’s post-punk mix of guitar and keyboard building into rousing walls of sound, while Anton Spetze issues a call to action with passionately delivered vocals that seem to yearn for some ultimate freedom just beyond his grasp.
