“I sometimes feel I might puke [from] moving so much… but when I feel that, I try to push myself harder,” says Pre singer Akiko Matsuura, discussing her convulsive stage act. “It’s an amazing feeling to push yourself as far as you can go,” adds guitarist John Webb. “When you wake up the morning after a show with cuts, bruises and whiplash, you know that you achieved something special.”
Pre have definitely done so on their debut LP, Epic Fits (Skin Graft). Recorded in a pizza storage unit (“The faster we played, the warmer we stayed!” claims Webb) in their home city of London, the album is like a high-speed escalator in which each track tops the manic energy of the last. As Matsuura breathes Boredoms-style fire, the band rips out blinding post-punk that evokes the Fall at 78 RPM, or Erase Errata in a fist-fight with Lightning Bolt. - Paper Thin Walls
with:
The Mae Shi
Michael Vidal (of Abe Vigoda)
