Album Review: Haest – Anomie

Anomie is Haest’s first full length after the release of two EP’s aptly named EP 1 and EP 2, but in the time leading up to this album being released on January 10th they have been busy on the live circuit, supporting the likes of Dwarves, Adolescents and Pears. 

You know that moment when you receive a new album from a band that you personally have never listened to or maybe never even heard of and the anticipation of hitting the play button to hopefully reveal something so special that your whole music life is gonna be turn upside down, well this is not one of them moments.

Haest are a Doom Punk band (or Sabbath on a downer) as someone coined recently, a little harsh but on first listen this is a totally understandable reaction, even for the most hardened hardcore Punk fans this music is so different that its easy to just dismiss it as something that has taken the guise of hardcore but just doesn’t quite get going.

But then there is the 2nd listen and then the 3rd in which you make some discoveries that maybe the ears didn’t quite send to the brain or is it the brain didn’t decipher properly, anyway lets not get bogged down with science, simply put, never judge a band by your first uneducated listen.

Song titles that seem to have no literal meaning whatsoever, or at least non that can be deciphered by the lyrical content of each song, no obligatory gap between songs to catch your breath, just a relentless drive to reach the end that kind of feels like they are doing this as a race, but holed up in there somewhere are some moments of simple life and what it means to just be normal and real. 

If you have now gotten past the initial pending doom that you felt at the beginning of your journey through this piece of musical chaos, then you are now in a place that feels like you’re hearing a future, a musical future, dark forbidding riffs that never really quite blend to form melody, a voice that grabs you by the scruff but doesn’t scream your eardrums into surrender, all of which is wrapped up with love and anarchy.

The moral of this review is, never write off anything and be prepared for anything as Haest have a sound that is unique and uncompromising.

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