Description

Las Ratapunks from Peru follow in a fine tradition of South American hardcore punk. The emphasis is on playing fast, and on fitting in as many words as possible.  This 4 song 7 inch is raucous, frantic, breakneck punk rock with frenetic vocal delivery and drums, with some well placed backing singing and shouting. The guitar is the scratchiest, tinny, most distorted thing I’ve heard in a while and filled me with the exuberance that I felt when I first ever heard Disorder’s debut EP.

Las Ratapunks burst out of Cajamarca, a city in the Peruvian highlands, in 2014. They aren’t doing anything new (who is?) but what they are is genuine and energetic. This is what punk bands are supposed to sound like. No messing about with anything over 2 minutes.  Move over old men, these young women have knocked you off your perch.  While the main vocal is properly angry, on Ministerio they show they have melodic harmonies to match The Adolescents or Bad Religion.