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Buke and Gase - Hiccup

“It is not entirely coincidental that we are releasing this on May Day,” explains Brassland co-founder Alec Hanley Bemis, “in a sympathetic gesture toward a movement afoot.” The first song (though not single) to be released from the the DIY Brooklyn duoBuke and Gase’s follow-up to the 2010 debut LP— due in September, the newly monikered band hopes— is rudely hewn, as if from mechanical detritus and rough gravel whipped into a militant, stomping beat. (If PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake had sounded uglier, this frequently dissonant, aggressive song could be an off-cut from the record.) In the spirit in which the release is intended, it’s not hard to imagine a crowd marching behind singer Arone Dyer, punching the air as she calls “hup hup!”, and echoing along with her mobilising, bodily cry, “Oh you know you’d better…”