Music News Monthly issue 1

EXIT_INTERNATIONAL
Celebrate 10 years of
'Black Junk' with remastered
limited edition coloured vinyl.
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It's September 17th 2011; the sun is shining,
the birds are chirping and Exit_International's
debut album 'Black Junk' was released into the
world, and boy was it ready for it.
The critically acclaimed (Kerrang!, RockSound,
Alternative Press, The Quietus) Welsh Music
Prize-nominated debut album turns 10 on
September 17th of this year, and to celebrate
their baby turning double figures,
Exit_International will be remastering and rereleasing
the album on limited edition 180gm
coloured vinyl for the first time, also including
three brand spanking new, never heard before
bonus tracks.
With Black Junk Exit_International have
managed to create an album that, a decade on,
has still managed to retain all of it's, erm,
charm? Still as shocking and hard-hitting now
as it was 10 years ago, Black Junk is definitely
not an album to take home to your Mother.
Since their formation in 2009, the dual bass led
three-piece have created their own brand of
ear-shatteringingly aggressive rock, whilst
throwing in some singalong pop hooks for good
measure.
Recorded with Carl Bevan (60 FT Dolls) at his
home in a 72 hour chemical haze, their
explosive debut Black Junk demonstrates just
that. In a sound spectrum of their own, the band
unapologetically shuns the use of guitars yet
packs a double onslaught of bass into every bar
for maximum carnage. Coming in at just over 30
minutes, this short, sharp shock of an album is
an intense whirlwind of pummeling staccato
bass riffs, brutal, pounding drums and salacious
lyrics that are sure to make you blush. The
exhilarating ride is topped off by Scott Lee
Andrews whose voice effortlessly shape-shifts
from ferocious screaming, sinister, demonic
snarls and at times high pitched vocals that
sound downright inhuman.
Speaking about the album's re-release, bassist
and vocalist Scott Lee Andrews says: " 'Black
Junk' still sounds to me as fresh as when we
wrote and recorded it, we were not part of any
scene and really doing our own thing. You can
hear the absence of overthinking things. We
wrote these songs really quickly - from what I
recall it was on a rehearsal to rehearsal basis
then gigging them to just tighten the
performances. We spent 2/3 days in total
tracking the songs with most of that time spent
fixing broken studio gear with our producer Carl
Bevan (Drummer of 60FT Dolls fame). Listening
back reminds me how much we laughed and
how fun that period was, with perfectly
capturing that ridiculous lightning in a sonic
bottle. It really does capture the absurd aspects
of our personalities as people. It's a fantastic
debut and I'm still so proud of it, and the doors
it opened for us".
Renowned for their visceral live performance
and for unleashing sonic lunacy on stage, those
doors included, playing PA destroying sets on
the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading & Leeds,
2000 Trees, Leopallooza, as well as touring the
UK, EU and Japan alongside the likes of Monster
Magnet, Blitz Kids, Ginger Wildheart, Baby
Godzilla, Pulled Apart By Horses, Kids In Glass
Houses, Future Of The Left, The Bronx, and more.