If It's Too Loud...

It's hard for a song to be just over one minute long and not leave you wanting more. But Portland, OR's Era Bleak have nailed that with "Robot." The song is one minute and nine seconds, and it's perfect just the way it is. It's a frantic blast of post punk thrashing directly towards the punk side of that genre. It's almost like if Downtown Boys tried out post punk, and succeeded marvelously. It's loud and hard and fast and just perfect. Plus, with a band name like Era Bleak, they might just be the band of 2020. You can listen to "Robot" below. Era Bleak's self-titled album will be out August 15 on Dirt Cult Records. You can pre-order a copy here . For more on Era Bleak, check them out on Facebook . Dirt Cult Records · Robot

Every now and then we get music submitted to us out of nowhere that blows me away. Era Bleak are the latest band to do that. Their new-ish song (also called "Era Bleak") is this highly danceable burst of post-punk meets riot grrrl. It's as intense as it is fun, which might be my very favorite style of punk. It's loud and obnoxious and just all around glorious. Zach Brooks of Era Bleak explains their latest quarantine recorded videos: "The year is 2020 and we are living in a 1980s punk dystopian sci-fi novel. A pandemic is raging. When we are not donning masks to go out in public, we have nothing to do besides smoke legal weed out of electronic cigarettes and lose ourselves in disinformation. The president of the United States is Jello Biafra's worst nightmare... a buffoon so grotesque we would have had a hard time believing the character was realistic had our current reality actually been a 1980s punk dystopian sci-fi novel. So what better way to ...