Premiere – Shkema’s blissfully Balearic ‘Room of Men Eaters’

Hope you’re feeling hungry

French crew Hard Fist bring us a brilliantly twisted new Balearic record from Shkema this week.

The ‘Room of Men Eaters’ EP features three original tracks from Lithuania’s self-styled king of “weird wave” – the deep, dubby and post-punk moodiness of ‘Tas Malonumas’ then ‘Room Of Men Eaters’, a chugging deep disco cut and ‘Sarka Syrkaza’ on the flip, another dark one with twisted metal guitar lines and rooted drum drums. The package is compoleted with a remix of Afrodelic’s ‘Je N’Aime Pas Les Fetes’ with filtered and freaky vocals.

Intrigued by the EP’s mysterious title, we naturally opted for ‘Room of Men Eaters’ when the label so kindly offered us a chance to premiere a track ahead of its release on February 29. So, what the hell is that all about, we demanded to know.

“The track is about a cannibal family,” he told us, “how they eat, who they eat, which part of their body they like most. The family is living in a beautiful house which has many rooms but one room has a dark purpose. A metaphor is that we all have a dark room inside where we eat other men.”

As for the vocals, he added: “It has that silly autotune. The technical inspiration came from mumble rap. I thought if they can use this nonsense, I can do it too.”

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Preview the whole EP on the Juno Player

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