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About upapipopapo's debut album "Endless End"

The main thing about the music on endless end is its immediacy. Upapipopapo describes many of the themes as super-ordinary reality, that they are sketched from the really real.

As such this approach shares much with the way punk sought to attach an emotional component to everyday experiences, only where that style was often noted for its angry energy, upapipopapo’s songs can channel the dreamy, drifty and reflective emotional content with as much vigour. Songs convey the joy of ‘I got a car’ or take you into the mind of upapipopapo at three years of age, shifting the balance from vocals to instrumentation as needed to carry the feel to the ears and the emotions.

Endless end ties these ordinarynesses together into a whole that builds and releases tensions across the album, providing a little insight into the range of upapipopapo’s approach to the super-real.

Musically and stylistically Upapipopapo reminds of the more nuanced approaches in late-punk styles, Wire’s ‘three girl rumba’ and ‘dot dash’ come to mind, along with some of the more basic tracks from Gang of Four and Magazine. There is also a hint of the same spirit taken in a different direction with attitude by bands such as Sonic Youth and in a more contemporary setting by The White Stripes.

In the end, endless end moves to the beat of its own drum, with a little upapipopapo thrown in to spice things up.

by Detlev Jackson