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Opus Kink
country: UK
genre: Alternative, Rock
styles: New Wave, Post-Punk, Jazz Punk
ABOUT THIS BAND
With their ever-mutating brand of jazz-and-country-laced punk, Opus Kink strike a singular figure in a saturated landscape. Making their name with incendiary, cult-like live shows, the band - formed in Brighton (UK) in 2017 - look far beyond the blueprint of 80s post-punk in developing their elusive sound, careening from tarantella (St Paul of The Tarantulas) to pounding death-disco (This Train) to music hall (Dust) to menacing, sluggish dirge (Malarkey). Underscored by their signature formidable horn section and ragged, sardonic delivery, the band bear passing resemblance to no-wave acts like The Pop Group, Birthday Party and Lounge Lizards, but it’s the weaving of older, more traditional influences - choral, folk, country, Latin, Weimar cabaret, cruise-ship-crooner - into the fabric of their music that sets them apart. Through their songs concerning violence, evil, shame, troubled sexual politics, anxiety and emptiness, all served with a wry absurdist bent, Opus Kink craft an alluring nether-world for their increasingly voracious audience to plunge into. Whether it’s performed in Serbian abattoirs, rousing festival crowds into shamanic frenzy or selling out London’s iconic Village Underground, their grotesque pop show leaves a scorch mark.
Source [Spotify]
Releases
Single
I Wanna Live With You (Warmduscher Version)
out on February 13, 2025
via So Recordings
Single
I Wanna Live With You
out on May 06, 2024
via Hideous Mink Records
EP
My Eyes, Brother!
out on May 19, 2023
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
Piping Angels
out on May 17, 2023
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
Children
out on April 20, 2023
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
1 : 18
out on April 04, 2023
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
Dust
out on February 02, 2023
via Nice Swan Recordings
EP
'Til The Stream Runs Dry
out on June 17, 2022
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
Dog Stay Down
out on May 10, 2022
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
The Unrepentant Soldier
out on March 21, 2022
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
I Love You Baby
out on February 15, 2022
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
This Train
out on July 02, 2021
via Nice Swan Recordings
Single
Wild Bill
out on March 19, 2021
via Nice Swan Recordings
Videos
I Wanna Live With You (Official Video)
May 06, 2024
Children
April 19, 2023
Dust (Official Video)
February 02, 2023
Dog Stay Down (Official Video)
May 10, 2022
Wild Bill (Official Video)
March 19, 2021
Concerts
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