FUTURE PUNX - I'm So Inspired 12"

Highly recommended.

It’s hard not to pick up a Devo vibe from I'm So Inspired, by Brooklyn’s Future Punx. Future Punx describes themselves as “post wave,” and this is a perfect description for the style of music they play.

While many punk bands have taken the post-punk route in their music, Future Punx has refreshingly taken the 80s new wave path and it has worked strongly in their favour. Upbeat, quirky, and filled with beeps and synth, Inspired, is exactly what punk that has been influenced by new wave should sound in 2014.

Only four songs long, it still manages to pack a punch as an entire record, with each song standing strongly on its own. The record opens with “I’m So Inspired,” which sounds like it could be on any classic Talking Heads record. The next song “Plus Side” begins with a riff that sounds like it was ripped straight from an early version of Devo’s “Girl U Want,” but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Rather than sounding like they can’t create original music and must steal from earlier musicians’ work, Future Punx are the homage to a fun and unique moment in music that at least a few of us have been waiting around for.

The final two songs, “Forgive the Doubt” and “See You in the Future” both illustrate the futuristic element one might expect from a band called Future Punx.

On the Dull Tools label, run by Parquet Courts.