Slitasje – Mandag Morgon – New LP

oh yeah, hello, I'm not fluent in their language, but it's almost as if I can hear everything they're saying...like if I listened to this enough, I'd be fluent in a few nights...good thing I can put this one on repeat and crank it up...it's the tongue of punk speaking loud like a siren on the shore...pulling you into something good and inviting...sounds like it's going to be okay if we stick together and storm this one out...it's always amazing when bands remind me of other bands and yet seemed so fresh and urgent and removed from the past...their possible influences slapped down and stomped into the woodwork...peel off the pieces like decals and wave that tattered punk flag high through the smog in the dark...light up that mantle and sway that lantern in the starry night of the summer sky.  I hate to say it like that, but that's the way it sounds to me. -- winch

This Trondheim-based Swedish/Norwegian band was formed under the pandemic lockdowns in 2020. Swedish singer Sushila was working in Trondheim (NO) at the time and had been talking for a couple of years with friend and bass guitarist Karl-Martin about starting to make music together. The lockdowns provided the time to start working on ideas, and when restrictions loosened up, some new songs started to see the light. They got friends and fellow punk rockers Eskild (guitar), Thor-Inge (guitar), and Andreas “Puppy” to join the lineup in the band Slitasje (which means “wear and tear” in Norwegian). With a background in bands like  ALLVARET (SE), NSB (NO), Anti-lam front (NO), CASTRO (NO), The School (NO), and more between the five, they´ve got some steady footing in the Scandinavian punk rock scene. With influences from all all over these guys have come together in a band that doesn't sound like any of their other band.