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Codiene releases follow up to 5317 Debut
"10,000 Percent" delivers extra distortion, extra Noise to Kalistani fans
Kaliburg, Ananto
August 7, 5321


Noise Alternative quartet Codeine release their second album on KMI

It's been about 4 years since Noise Alternative first cracked the charts on Radio 1. Meanwhile, the Noise Alternative band Queens of Surf fared poorly overseas, scoring a meager 6th place in FOMAT, showing that this trend is Kalistan's own, for the time being. But the fact that other nations cannot appreciate and do not enjoy loud music has not deterred one of the pioneers of the subGenre of Noise Alternative, who have released their second record on KMI this week. Codeine's "10,000 Percent" features the Noise rockers as they stray into Punk Rock and Skate Punk riffs, art rock, and Political alternative, and this album vidicates Noise Alternative following general rebuke overseas.

The first single on the record is about the murder of a friend of the Band Greg Lofthouse, one of the two skaters whose image graces the front of the album. "Greg was a real true star," said Dwayne Martin. "he was a great skater and we used to hang around together at the skate park." Lofthouse was murdered two years ago in a fight over a woman, and his loss grieved many in the Kaliburg skate scene.

"The album also touches on feminism, and a push back on the ideas that there is equality between men and women in The Republic. Bassist Kim Caffee said "When are guys, especially young men going to stop coming to shows where women are playing and crowd their way up to the front? When are they going to start picking up people who fall down in the pit? You guys make is so hard for the Ladies to just come to the show because you think that these shows are like RF clubs where you can just put your hands on everything that moves. I'm here to tell you that ain't the case boys. Next guy who puts his hand on me is going to get my Size 8 combat boots to the junk." Caffee makes her hatred of unwanted sexual advances clear on the song "Meat Special" which talks about the sort of "bro" culture that seems to have evolved in Kalistan. "More women are speaking out against these guys," said Caffee. "I wanted to add our voice to the calls for respect and decency."

The album also talks about the fascism of apathy in Kalistan, in the song "Anti-Fasism". "When you have one Party government," said Martin, "its good on the one hand, because you don't have a bunch of like flipping around and going back and forth, and a bunch of holier than thou Liberal fascists always trying to sell you to the richest capitalist. But then on the other hand, you also don't have a lot of reason for people to get active. People are just going about their lives, living and such and the Government pretty much rules by fiat. To the degree that anyone votes, they just vote for local offices, because when you run opposed, we already know who the winner is. Not saying we need like fascists or even liberals in this country--Having nobody is better than that. But that sort of political lethargy is a form of fascism too, isn't it? Because there's no real choices?"

In all, the record features blistering guitars, over driven basses, and lots and lots of loud cymbals. It straddles the line of several genres in its quest to make the loudest rock it can. "If it turns off people in other countries, so what? " asked Caffee, rhetorically. "We make music for Kalistanis. We make music for all the surfers and skaters out there, and all the men and women in the Militia. We make music for the NSPers, and the art chicks. For the working class as well as the movie stars. We make music that Kalistan can be proud of."

As evidence, following the loss in FOMAT, Codeine invited the Queens of Surf to play a duet on the Album. The resulting song is called "Food Bank" and sounds like a duel between distorted guitars, while also bringing soft melodic tones to an otherwise very noisy song.

Check out the first single, "10,000 Percent" from Codeine's sophomore album, also called 10,000 Percent, here and on Radio 1 and M7.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3gN9Up6hmc]