CASUAL BURN - Mean Thing LP Folk Much of Beauty & Ruin

Much of Beauty & Ruin deals with the passing of Mould’s father in October 2012

This sparklingly devilish debut LP comes off so ferociously powerful and snotty

organic broth of severely unabashed proto-punk and spaced-out aesthetics that have me seeing Twinkeyz

but in the end it seems clear to me that I skipped ahead and made a Buhloone Mindstate

After a few digital releases and a split tape with Empty

CASUAL BURN - Mean Thing LP Folk Much of Beauty & RuinCasual Burn are a femme fronted punk rock band from the swamps of New Orleans. Their debut full length Mean Thing is a haunting punk rock stomp with goth and surf undertones, sludgy downshifts, and a few noisy freak outs. Everything is held together by Monets hypnotic vocal style, a sonic sister of Siouxsie Sioux and Alice Bag. Catchy melodies and strong songwriting chops contrast with the blown out garage vibe of an 80s punk record.