Dead Dance Club, by Maniac

Dead Dance Club

by Maniac

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1.	City Lights 02:29	buy track
2.	Subject to Change 01:50	buy track
3.	Neutral Libido 03:40	buy track
4.	Midnight Kino 02:28	buy track
5.	Calamine 01:20	buy track
6.	Modern Love 03:04	buy track
7.	Children of the Dirt 02:12	buy track
8.	Living in Stereo 02:55	buy track
9.	Officer Jimmy 01:29	buy track
10.	Precision Accuracy 02:25	buy track
11.	Post Post World 02:42	buy track
12.	Dead Dance Club 02:15	buy track

about

On MANIAC’s second full-length the twelve new tracks snap and bop by like any high quality vintage LA and Pacific Northwest punk but without any sense of nostalgia or fetish for a particular scene. The album spans the delights of the melodically layered and trade-off vocals of “Post Post World” and “Neutral Libido,” the snarl-chants of “Children of the Dirt” and “Living in Stereo,” and the controlled frenzy of openers “City Lights” and “Subject to Change” which start the album.

The band first came together in 2012 when Andrew Zappin and ex-
Seattleite Zache Davis (The Girls, Cute Lepers) would hit the dark night spots of El Lay together, bonding over classic power pop and a passion for creating songs about ‘When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro’ (as Hunter Thompson once wrote). Adding Justin Maurer (Clorox Girls, LA Drugz) on second guitar and James Carman (Images, LA Drugz) on drums, solidifying the line-up.

The band has four songwriters, Zache Davis (bass and lead vocals),
Justin Maurer (vocals and guitars), Andrew Zappin (guitar), and James Carman (drums and backing vocals). Dead Dance Club was recorded at Station House Studios in Echo Park by Mark Rains; the band produced the album with Maurer taking a strong hand.

James Carman’s fever-pitch drumming infuses MANIAC’s music with
crisp, rhythmic urgency and sophisticated flourishes. His angelic vocal harmonies are one of the stylistic backbones of Dead Dance Club. MANIAC were finalists in LA Weekly's Best Live Band in LA awards category. There is something quintessentially LA about them, even if their punk rock would have fit perfectly with any decaying, hedonistic City of the West trying to abuse its body to believe in its soul.