‘Los demonios del pasado, Me atormentan, Con remordimiento, Es borrosa la manera, Cuando trato, De crear momentos, Se disipan en al limbo’ (Fragmentos) / ‘The demons of the past, They torment me, With remorse, The way is blurred, When I try, To create moments, They dissipate into limbo’ (Fragments)

Venenö (Poison) return with a follow up to last year’s Demo MMXXIV debut 7-inch. The trio have their roots firmly in New York’s Oi traditions and this heritage, not least the roughly hewn Spanish vocals, is subtly braided through these four tracks.  Yet, Venenö’s sound is one much more notably shrouded in the bleakly melancholic shades of post-punk.

Venenö deftly meld these competing influences.  Waves of mournfully serpentine melody, chunky bass lines, and surging rhythms ferment an atmosphere that is steeped equally in regret at wrong turns taken and an undimmed defiance to get back up for the next round.  The darkly propulsive Vició (Vice) and the bristling anguish of Fragmentos capture the mood with a particular elegiac lucidity.