Folk punk 4-piece Pizza Bush occupy a slender and sparsely inhabited space between vaudevillian shenanigans and painfully astute world-view criticism. Luckily, that slender space is rent-controlled and hasn’t become the latest victim of gentrification. Their latest EP Pizza Punk is just 3 tracks, but holds a dizzyingly dense amount of truth to power without pomp or grandeur.
Formed in 2023, Pizza Bush wasted no time establishing themselves as a band that can take the woes of everyday life and deliver Michelin-star level criticism in the form of pithy, sarcastic, honest, and ludicrously catchy songs. The old adage is that time and tragedy equals comedy – and Pizza Bush have that formula down to a sickeningly succinct science.
Released March 16, Pizza Punk feels strangely personal and specific as the songs delve into struggles with mental health, non-consensual attacks on autonomy, toxic jazz bros, and so much more. The mixture of punk’s signature crudeness, folk’s harmonies, and a world of unhinged influences, Pizza Punk is a wild ride across genres. The two latter tracks of the EP are reworked versions from previous releases and feel right at home.
Pizza Bush have carved a much deserved space for themselves between lunacy and honesty. Pizza Punk is a refreshingly unfiltered look at reality and presented through a lens that doesn’t bog down the listener in the direness of it all. Pizza Bush invites you to dance around the dumpster fire and, right now, that feels like the best option.
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antifolk/punk band/4 silly queers in a trench coat
