Total Nada

Reviews

Total Nada Aqui y Ahora 12″

You aren’t even ready. You think you might know what’s about to happen because you’ve heard TOTAL NADA before, but.you aren’t ready for this. The EPs are good, don’t get me wrong (they’re great, actually), it’s just that TOTAL NADA has done something truly special on Aqui y Ahora. Blistering hardcore punk that compresses all of the bouncy energy that makes Spanish punk so unique and just makes it….more. It’s faster, it’s more intense, and it’s more infectious than should be allowed. When they unleash, it’s impossible to not hear the influence of the Italians, but TOTAL NADA do all of this without sounding like anything except themselves. They manage to do all of these things in “Punta De Lanza,” but it’s still impossible to isolate just one track here. Their sound feels realized, they feel like a machine…now, what are they going to do next?!

Total Nada II EP

Following their self-titled 7” from 2021, II features seven new tunes from Montréal’s TOTAL NADA. With lyrics in Spanish, the bands’ taut hardcore approach is cast in looming post-punky shadows that lend an heir of dread to the spirited music. It’s fiery, battle-cry-laden punk slathered in dark moods that range from jaded dissatisfaction to full-on impending doom. Powerful and pouty, this would make a perfect soundtrack to being trounced by a gothic MMA fighter.

Total Nada El Camino Más Fácil EP

Somewhere I read that to repress libidinal energy is to repress the genius of creativity. TOTAL NADA, with this debut EP, seeks to do precisely the opposite. They build, with just six awesome tracks, a space of liberation for those libidinal energies to emerge and birth autonomy and personal expression. The band is from Canada, with a Colombian vocalist singing in Spanish, and a sound where the different axes of the global hardcore cartography converge. One senses the brutalist monotone of RUDIMENTARY PENI but also the manic aggression of South American hardcore of the late ’80s and early ’90s and the overwhelming force of the best Italian punk. It’s gorgeous, it’s fun, it’s sweaty, and above all, it’s brilliant. It is the light that guides us out of the ideological labyrinth in which we live.