Body Maintenance (AUS)04.08.2023 // HAMBURG // KOMET

About Body Maintenance (AUS)

Following the release of their self-titled EP in late February, we had a chat with Body Maintenance to find out a little more about the five-piece and their disorientating brand of post-punk. Despite having no online presence and with only a couple of fairly informal releases to their name, Body Maintenance have managed to spend their first few years of existence making a mark on Melbourne’s underground music scene without ever revealing their cards. That’s not a bad thing by any means though – just as the music they make is murky and sinister yet equally gripping, they’ve maintained an elusive presence over local audiences that’s simultaneously stark and compelling. However, with the release of their self-titled EP and their first to be “properly mixed and mastered”, the band have finally removed the veil (although just slightly), revealing themselves to be one of the most arresting local bands making post-punk at the moment. From beginning to end, Body Maintenance feels like a propulsive blur, co-existing between grimy punk fury and otherworldly atmospherics. EP opener ‘Glass Faces’ blitzes out of the gates with a relentless pulse, as layers of cloudy guitar and beaming synth tangle alongside Riley Stafford’s looming vocals. It’s a momentum that never fully lets up – moments later with the frantic ‘Sheets’ or the thunderous stomp of closing track ‘Death’s Crawl’. However, when the gears do shift on ‘Transit’ and ‘Pentridge’, the result is somehow even more disarming, as we’re confronted with the bleakest edge of their sound without shaking the constant anxiety that’s forever simmering beneath these tracks.

Source: Trouble Juice, http://www.troublejuice.co/2021/04/02/glass-faces-a-chat-with-body-maintenance/

On tour

03.08. GRONINGEN – M.O.C
04.08. Hamburg – KOMET
05.08. BERLIN – SCHOKOLADEN
06.08. DRESDEN – OSTPOL
07.08. KARLSRUHE – SECRET
08.08. COLOGNE – PRIVATE
09.08. ANTWERP – MUSIC CITY
10.08. PARIS – SUPERSONIC
11.08. BRISTOL – DARESHACK
12.08. LONDON – SHACKLEWELL ARMS
13.08. SHEFFIELD – DELICIOUS CLAM
15.08. LEEDS – THE WHARF CHAMBERS
17.08. NEWCASTLE – THE LUBBER FIEND
18.08. MANCHESTER – HENDRYKK
19.08. GLASGOW – OLD HAIRDRESSERS