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# MUSIC REVIEW: Michael Jablonka – Flump
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/music-review-michael-jablonka-flump/
- Published: 2018-05-14T08:02:40.000Z
- Updated: 2018-05-14T09:27:15.000Z
- Description: Thrashing driving, with gritty guitars, and fast bars. Driving hammering, drum beats come flooding in, all with the force of a muddy grunge band, in sticky dive bar, ready to demolish the sunken stage in front of them.
- Author: Ray A-J

## **Flumps are soft right? Gooey and sweet. Not this one.**

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/web-600-400-20.jpg)

  
**Thin.**   
**Bare, calm** then  
Crash.

Thrashing driving, with gritty guitars, and fast bars. Driving hammering, drum beats come flooding in, all with the force of a muddy grunge band, in sticky dive bar, ready to demolish the sunken stage in front of them. A synergy of sonic hums and fuses brashly buzzes about the avid crowd. Shrieking feedback and muddy distortion squirms into the calamity, whining its rough riff.

The latest track from **Michael Jablonka** is nothing like its sweet namesake. With scratchy guitar whaling and gravelly chords, the song pays homage to the rock and punk aesthetic of **The White Stripes**, and doesn’t hesitate to blast eardrums and spit crunching harmonies.

Light, Sultry- a voice laced with buzzing electronics turns the thrashy rhythms and crunchy guitar riffs into a skeletal pit of drums and tumble weed. All of a sudden the driving intro of chaotic sharp guitars and distortion funnels out into a calm verse. Some respite. But the combative slicing sounds return once more to burst your ears as soon as the chorus kicks in.

Overall, the track is a fast paced meddle of strings and drums, lightly topped off with fresh vocals that seem to channel **Royal Blood** or **Muse** in the electricity and tickling falsetto. **Jablonka** has created a psychedelic mash of rock and grunge, that isn’t quite as nerve tickling as **Nirvana**, but still has some tear away moments of oddly pretty sounds.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/web-600-49.jpg)

**To listen to Flump, [click here:](https://soundcloud.com/jablonka-music/flump/s-6umfE?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**