Kapitan Korsakov - Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities

Given that the promo shot accompanying this release is of three men in boiler suits with wet crotches it's initially hard to say whether the band's name is a piss take of severe alcoholism or they fancy that they've amusingly updated the RHCP's socks-on-cocks image. They also hashtag themselves as a triple K, thus striking a blow against pillowcase wearing racists. Juvenilia aside what does the music sound like?

Well, for one thing, track two, 'Suicide Limp', seems to employ auto-tune on the vocals so that's a black mark right off. 

For another thing there’s lots of noodling around to little effect and the final track, ‘Very Friendly Fire’, is 18 minutes long – except it’s not as ten minutes or so of it’s silence before a ‘crazy’ little end part. It looks better viewed on soundcloud than actually being listened to. Yawn.

Positive elements do though exist on PVITLOMP. ‘Hearts Too Hard’ has a pretty effective vocal and piano part with muted guitar thrashing in the background and elsewhere there are virtuosic, proggy guitar parts married up to the kind of angst-ridden vocals you’d not ordinarily think of them working well with. ‘Pussy Scars’ is a pretty good example of the fuzzed up, rockier material the band are capable of although you have to wonder at that title.

Overall this is an album of peaks and troughs of emotional maturity, played by musicians whose talents seem to have outpaced their social development. It’s pretty boring at times too. Frontman Pieter-Paul Devos is quoted as saying  “There are no genres in music, there is only good, sincere music and there is bad music”. Apart from that being bollocks we’re clearly on either side of his definition when it comes to Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities.

Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities is available from amazon & iTunes.