Pop. 1280 - The Horror (album stream)

After some pretty flawlessly disgusting 12"s, NYC scumsuckers Pop. 1280 have finally returned for their debut slab of synth-tweaked, gutter-gazing, jeans-pissing noise-rock. The upcoming The Horror, released last Tuesday on Sacred Bones, starts with the sublimely bleak lyric "Two dogs fucking," and then just gets exponentially savage with the filthy animal metaphors as the album unravels into madness, demanding you "beg like a human." Fans of Suicide, Birthday Party, Chrome, Jesus Lizard, Swans, and Pussy Galore take notice — and get some therapy!


Thanks to SPiN Magazine

New York's Pop.1280 is prepared for the apocalypse. Its full length debut The Horror on Sacred Bones will be a fine companion along with your Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide. Get your survival kit on January 24.

The songs that led them into the apocalypse.
By Ivan Lip & Chris Bug
imposemagazine.com

Pop. 1280 are a cyberpunk band from New York City. The Grid is their first 12” release. Members include: Chris Bug, Ivan Lip, John Skultrane, and Andrew S. They got together in 2009 and have released two 7” records, the most recent being a self-released single and split 7” with Philadelphia’s Hot Guts.

As dark and sinister as the Jim Thompson novel from which the band borrows their name , these nine dirges of skronky noir are the logical successor to the brand of skree practiced by forebearers the Chrome Cranks, Honeymoon Killers, and Pussy Galore, and along with contemporaries Twin Stumps, White Suns, Woman, and York Factory Complaint are ushering in a new era of punk.

Their music is all about the future that has already happened. Think Videodrome-era David Cronenberg mixed with Escape from New York-era John Carpenter. The Grid was recorded in April of 2010 in the basement of a closed Catholic School. On it are six songs using synthesizers, scrap metal, raccoon screech guitar, and samples about the freaks that inhabit The Grid. Step into it.

Links
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pop-1280/128064077225181
http://pop1280.tumblr.com/
http://www.myspace.com/population1280
http://www.last.fm/music/Pop.+1280