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New Classics: GHUM, “GET UP”, wherein Joy Division meets The Cult on Fascination Street, only louder, faster, and with more feedback

No matter how loud you’ve got the volume set while you’re playing the clip above, you need it louder. TURN IT UP!

Ghum are Laura Guerrero Lora (Spain, vocals), Marina MJ (Brazil, bass), Jojo Khor (Malaysia, guitar) and Vicki Butler (London, drums), and as “Get Up” has surely tipped you by now, you NEED these four women in your life.

Only an EP and two singles so far (including 2020′s glittering “California”), so this is only the beginning of your obsession.

“The band’s best songs are propelled by heart-racing basslines and thrilling guitars; punky, but with the stately grace of goth-pop. Guerrero Lora has the ability to sing in every register from whisper to scream, like early PJ Harvey – sometimes anguished, always raw. Often, Ghum’s tracks disintegrate instead of ending, as if the band’s poise were just a mask.” -- Guardian UK

“Immediately astonish with their electrifying brand of post-punk, but with a bitter and biting edge. The best goth pop that never was but could still be.” -- The Vapour Trail

“Crystalline guitars as they were initially presented back in the old days with a keen on deathrock too, a bass player who drives the train on certain and solid rails like in the Simon Gallup/ Peter Hook university, a drummer who cuts all twigs and branches along its fiery way (post-punk rules), and a singer with a character and a gifted voice who offers her obvious darkwave soul over a shining palette of influences and shades.” -- White Light // White Heat

What the heck, let’s end with their quarantine video for “California”. The single was released just before All This™, so instead of figuring out how to shoot a traditional music video, they asked fans for clips of themselves playing along, and put it together in delightful fashion. 

It starts quietly before taking off like a rocket. Strap in, and TURN IT UP!

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Ghum - California

California is the new single from London, UK post punk rockers, Ghum, it was released on the 22nd January 2020. Ghum are comprised of Laura Guerrero Lora on vocals, Marina MJ on the bass, Vicki Butler on the drums and Jojo Khor on the guitar and vocals.