Future Punx’s 2020 took everything loved about their contemporaries and amped it up a notch. It is one of those records that, especially in our current situation, makes you want to walk out the front door and go see any live band and dance. It is something special. Our interview with the band’s Jake Pepper via e-mail confirms this theory.
Long before this year, NNAMDÏ’s music and live performances had solidified him as an artist making was truly something special. With three exceptional releases in 2020 (BRAT, Black Plight, KRAZY KARL), he’s cemented himself as one of the most creative and genre defiant voices. Ryan Martin spoke to him about the making of KRAZY KARL.
NNAMDÏ’s latest effort, released less than three months after BRAT, is a 20 minute mind-fuck that displays the core of his imaginative genius. Inspired by Looney Tunes composer Carl Stalling, it takes what made Stalling’s music fun, inventive, and exciting, and makes it darker, weirder, more experimental, psychedelic, and overall braver.