TERANTULA — ‘JOLLY CHIMP’ OUT NOW

Happy Friday the 13th ~ This marks another milestone for PiqueAV as well as our latest signee, Lafayette, Indiana based 3-piece rock band Terantula; their debut LP ‘Jolly Chimp’ 

There’s a certain kind of debut record that doesn’t sound like an introduction. It sounds like a band that’s already been through something. There’s a ragged immediacy here — the kind that defined ’90s alternative rock at its most vital. Guitars that scrape instead of shimmer. Melodies that feel earned.

You can hear the quiet-to-eruptive tension popularized by Nirvana, first carved into form by Pixies. There’s the bruised simplicity of a band like Failure, the wiry unease of Hum, the kind of melodic abrasion that once made Stone Temple Pilots feel massive without trying to be. 

The trio of young rockers — Silas Hall, Jerome Fones and Daniel Ryan — self-proclaimed nu-grunge, seems less interested in nostalgia than momentum… but don’t take our word for it, go have a listen!