On their debut release, “Smart Tart,” this emerging American punk band Charming Scars hits electrifying hard. It’s about as controlled as it is chaos, which you don’t find much of anymore in the alternative music world. “Smart Tart” is raw, honest, and hard.
Arriving instantly and urgently, marking some of the greatest punk, “Smart Tart” demands attention. Within seconds, you’ve whisked away in a tornado of real, live drums and jagged riffs that sound like they’ve been snatched out of the underground, buffed, and polished for a radiant, new sound. But this is not noise for its own rebellious sake. There’s a method to the madness, as Charming Scars revels via an impressively dense song far away from the genre’s cookie-cutter halls.
This song is sharp, a little unhinged, and completely unforgettable, a musical smirk that knows it’s more intelligent than you but dares you to race to catch up. The band straddles the line between reckless and refined with exquisite technical flair, making it sound relatively straightforward.
“Smart Tart” plays like a response to boredom, an espresso shot designed to knock you out of a track. It’s anxious and quick, though not without a reason. There’s a clear sense of artistic intention beneath its unhinged energy, a feeling that Charming Scars isn’t all about noise for noise’s sake. They’re here to say something.
As debuts go, this is swaggeringly self-assured material. Charming Scars knock the door down, flip on the lights, and crank up the volume. If this track is any indication, they’re building punk backup from the studs. This is punk that knows precisely what it is doing and does it in its own style.
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