Kasms
Kasms allegedly met in October 2007 when the four band members got into a drunken row at a cash point in Dalston. Bumping into each other a week later at a Get Hustle show sealed the deal and Kasms was born.
Delicious and exciting, their confrontational, Halloweeny art-punk is best experienced live, with Rachel ('singer/noises') notorious for hurling herself on the floor and staging assaults on photographers, amps and unwary bystanders (she explains, 'they lock me in a dark box and the only time I see the outside world is for gigs so I get a bit excited and like to make the most of it').
In early 2008, the band signed to Trouble Records (home of Crystal Castles, Koko von Napoo and An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump); all 2000 copies of debut single 'Taxidermy' sold out, reaching number 12 in the charts. During their first year together they have played New York, Paris, Berlin, and Milan, and darkened the UK's doors alongside Televised Crimewave. The harsh rhythms and dark, clangy melodies of new album Spayed (May '09) has wowed the critics and brought comparisons to Sonic Youth, Siouxsie and the Banshees, X-Ray Spex, and Bikini Kill.
'Exciting, riotous and barbaric' - This Is Fake DIY
'Full on, hard, dirty sex' - altsounds.com
Listen to Kasms - Spayed:
