New Audio: Minneapolis’ Spit Takes Return with a Breakneck Ripper

Minneapolis-based punk outfit Spit Takes — Vanessa McKinney (vocals), Monet Wong (guitar), Angie Lynch (bass) and Charles Gehr (drums) — formed last year. Influenced by Amyl and the Sniffers, X-Ray Spex, Bikini Kill, and The Slits among a list of other acts, the Minneapolis-based punks pair crunchy guitar riffs with raw, unapologetic lyrics.

Earlier this year, I wrote about “God Bless (Holy Tits)!,” a pub rock-like take on punk rock that reminded me of Amyl and the Sniffers. So of course there are the prerequisite big riffs and thunderous drumming paired with most pit friendly hooks and choruses. But at its core, it’s a hilarious and defiantly crude, feminist anthem delivered with a zero fucks given aplomb.

The Minneapolis punk outfit returns with “Hogwash,” a crusty post-punk tinged, breakneck ripper punctuated with angular guitar bursts and McKinney’s punchy shouts. The song captures the band calling out the bullshit around them with an incensed fury. While continuing a run of catchy, mosh pit friendly rippers, “Hogwash,” as the band explains is “a rallying cry to tear through the veils of falsehood, seek out justice in the chaos, and clasp the raw, unembellished essence of existence.”