How To Loot Brazil - Nothing To Prove

 

 

 

1.   Who are these crafty looking characters?

How To Loot Brazil are a post punk new wave dance band from Germany who sing in English and have six long players in the vault. Nothing To Prove (Jan'16) is a stand alone single.

2. What kind of tune is Nothing To Prove?

A noisy messed up electro rock track that bangs from the first notes yet paradoxically is a slow grower; no instant riff, hook or chorus to supply your sugar rush but they are all there, under camouflage, and ably providing fire support for the vocal assault. It's great variety for a playlist and you will end up loving it. The chorus and bridge infect you like syphilis. A pleasure to catch but a bugger to get rid of.

3. Who do How To Loot Brazil sound like?

Nothing To Prove sounds like Prodigy was giving Mother Mother party favors as they walked towards the bedroom and Jane's Addiction were hanging around poolside with a wistful face.

Sound Mag made comparisons with the B52's, The Ramones, Nation, Guano Apes and We Were Promised Jetpacks. BBC Music says How To Loot Brazil are similar to Hooray For Earth, TRAAMS, Bear Hands and A Silent Film. But if BBC Music is anything like BBC News then don't believe a word they say. Tunes like Shout Out Love mind me of a bastard child of New Order and The Wombats.

4. What have the press to say about How To Loot Brazil?

Precious little. Sound Mag said on the topic of their album F For Vortex, “For friends of innovative and motley indie rock... a real gem.” Reverb Nation called How To Loot Brazil's music “edgy pop music”,  “angry and partly weird but with radiant catchy hooks” and penultimately “a genre-bending mash-up.” Sound Mag summed the band up nicely, “How To Loot Brazil offer a truly eclectic mix, which is more familiar with each rotation of the player and mixes into the blood of the listener.”
 

 

5. Who are How To Loot Brazil influenced by?

They get their frisson from bands like Sonic Youth, The Hellacopters, Public Enemy, Help She Can't Swim, Depeche Mode, So So Modern, The Smiths, Forward Russia!, The Melvins, Les Savy Fav, The Wombats and Front 242.

6. Why should I listen to Nothing To Prove?

Nothing To Prove has a magical mix of aggressive guitar and vocals with a helter skelter beat and the bridge is melodic and memorable. Nothing To Prove will put some 'don't fuck with me' in your stride youngblood.

7. Do How To Loot Brazil have any more good songs?

Check out the indie rocker Backwater Prick or the indie dance of Shout Out Love. If you're still on page then have a taste of their second single release this month, Fire Might Be Helpful. 

8. Is their anything else I should know about How To Loot Brazil?

The guitarist and singer for the band ,The Leach, did an excellent re-mix of The Clash’s apocalyptic hit London Calling.

Other re-mixes include The Cure's Just Like Heaven, House Of Pain's Jump Around and a few from Depeche Mode.

The band were featured on The Indie Rock Playlist Best Of 2014/2015 by Jonathan Hunt.

 

“As you’re lying in wait like a predator”

 

 

The last word today is reserved for alternative funk-punk American rock band Jane’s Addiction who blew like a hurricane out of Los Angeles from the mists of time. Stop (1990) was a number one hit on the alternative rock charts and came screaming of their iconic album Ritual de lo Habitual, itself one of Rollingstones 500 greatest albums of all time.