A year since their Live three-track EP; Opus Kink have returned with two debut studio singles, born and bred to shake you to your core. Produced by Liam Watson and Tim Bulleyment at Toerag Studios, Faster Than the Radio / Mosquito — released in November 2019 — depicts impending doom, terror, and looming figures; an ominous jolt into the depths of your mind.
Formed at the end of 2017, the six-piece have become well-know throughout the Brighton music scene for raucous, sweaty gigs with a lively spirit of experimentation. Bred through a desire to amalgamate groove-based, jazz-inspired rhythms with a strange apocalyptic narrative; Opus Kink evoke both an anxious world and a joyous one.
Smooth, calculated brass is paired with a steady, deliberate beat; easing you in for a so-called stable ride for the first few seconds of Faster Than the Radio, before chucking you into the deep end — gravelly vocals cutting through all barriers; letting you know that you’re actually in for quite an adventure. A character study of a despotic looming figure, chipping away at the root of your mind; Faster is wholly designed to make you shudder, and then come back for more.
Mosquito is very much a different affair. Harsh yet welcoming bass clutches onto the track from the start with an extreme eagerness; matched with increments of rhythm guitar. Rasping saxophone infiltrates the middle-section of the song — a short solo, but nonetheless memorable; breaking the steady cacophony of bass that’s been guiding us through the song thus far. The vocals on this track are mesmerising; pushing and pulling you every-which-way, and finally dropping you wherever it pleases when the track comes to a close.
Having been named a ‘groove powerhouse’, and grasping the attention of figures such as Rob da Bank (Bestival), Matt Johnson (The The), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) and Robert Smith (The Cure); Opus Kink are surely making a name for themselves throughout Brighton and beyond.
Opus Kink are broody yet energising; alarming yet soothing and most of all, turbulent and raucous; a rush of energy that must not be ignored.
These cracking lads have two shows coming up in the near future — an NME show @ The Green Door Store, supporting Black Honey on 29TH JANUARY; and ‘Never Heard Of Ya’, supporting NORMAN, on 22ND MARCH. Unfortunately, and not surprisingly, the show at GDS is now SOLD OUT, so make sure you catch them on the 22nd March; Venue TBC.