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When Luxembourgish post punk band Office Of Weird broke up, the guitarist and the bassist asked Pit, formerly of Yegussa, to join them for a new band, which ultimately became UltraNothing. In the meantime, the guitarist is currently also a member of hardcore noise punk band GOFAI, and the drummer plays in the equally fierce Règlement de Comptes. I guess that’s why the post punk of UltraNothing adds more emphasis on the punk than on the post.

The four songs on the EP, which will also be released as a vanity item on 10-inch vinyl, only make it to twelve minutes, but this short time is already a good indication about what to expect from this new three-piece. The guitars are wild and distorted, yet never lack a certain melody, the bass line fights its way prominently to the front of the sound, and the kinetic drumming makes for a varied and groovy carpet.

The opener The Grace Of Time is a straightforward noise punk song with raw vocals, loud guitars and a rather fast pace, which all reminds me of early nineties noise rock. The following Fight It Out is slightly shorter, and also the EP’s pre-release single. It’s maybe the vocals, but this song sounds like very early The Cure trying their hand at being a punk band. Nice! Elation is at five minutes the longest track, and walks a tightrope between shoegaze dreaminess and noisy guitar music. Early Sonic Youth might be a point of reference. Animosity is a fast ninety second short punk rocker that is definitely not taking any prisoners.

As a first sign of life, this self-titled EP by UltraNothing is a promising start. One could have wished for a couple more songs, but as things are, this should be considered an appetizer, with the hope that we won’t have to wait too long for the main course to arrive.