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Nothing Left To Say

by Gunka

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End of Youth 01:56
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2.
Maximum Capacity 01:53
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3.
After All 01:41
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4.
Life on Trial 02:03
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5.
Concrete Plan 01:35
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6.
The Need 02:07
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7.
Cut the Brakes 01:44
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8.
Feel the Fall 02:16
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9.
Case Against 01:37
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10.
Gone Daddy Gone 01:45
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11.
Parallel Lies 02:32
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‘Gunka’ means war song, a Japanese term for a military song that originated before the Second World War and developed into something that was later banned, probably because the songs became “narrowed down almost exclusively to the enhancement of hostility and morale.” No ‘Gunka’ was longer than three minutes - how punk is that?

The band Gunka are not yet banned, but give them time. Their first album, 'Nothing Left to Say’, was born out of need to shout, and they definitely didn’t want to do it for longer than three minutes at a time. Most Gunka songs are way under two minutes.

A two-piece made up of Paul (vocals/drums and sometime guitarist), and Marc (guitars/bass/lyrics/backing vocals) share the songwriting, and it’s not the first time they’ve written together. They’re both former members of Blenderhead and Beaver Patrol (whose first release was on the Hometown Atrocities label in 1989). But this time they wanted to produce things themselves, and thirty years later in 2018/19, eleven tracks were written, recorded and mastered by the band. ‘Nothing Left To Say’ is the breathless result.

It feels like an old-school hardcore punk record but with a new pulse. End of Youth opens with an onslaught of fast rolling bass and hectic drums, before guitar noise and angry shouting follows. There’s almost time to take a breath, before the second track, racist bating Maximum Capacity explodes. It’s ferocious, but there’s melody pouring up through the layers of guitars, which leads in to a more Skate Punk feel on track three (After All) continuing through to Concrete Plan. And so it goes. There’s classic four-chord punk in here too (The Need), a surprising metal style blast beat in Cut the Brakes and lots of DC Hardcore (Feel the Fall, Case Against), and why not. The album is rounded off with a very punk vibraphone toting Violent Femmes cover (Gone Daddy Gone), and ends on one of their first written tracks, Parallel Lies, the longest Gunka track and practically a prog opus in length at 2min 33sec!

Gunka are writing again now, and seem set to build the band up ready to gig. But for now, expect more releases soon, channeling more of the same positive hostility and morale.

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released April 6, 2019

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Gunka is a two-piece punk rock band from the UK, with former members of Blenderhead and Beaver Patrol (whose first release was on the Hometown Atrocities label in 1989).

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