Mysterious NYC outfit NODEGA to release debut project ‘Rot In Helvetica’ this month 

There’s a new kid on the block in New York - well, sort of. Merging hardcore, thrash-punk, and indie-rock, five-piece NODEGA have announced that their debut album, ‘Rot In Helvetica’, will arrive on 18th July via Chrysalis. 

A record that mediates on the disillusionment and dystopia of modern life, the LP takes inspiration for its attitude from the mighty Kim Gordon. Explaining further, the band have noted: “Kim Gordon once observed that the punk ethos is all about saying ‘No’. We wrote and played this set of old school capital P ‘punk’ high on the influence of old-school hardcore, skate punk, and early thrash, but injected it with melody just to make sure to alienate the trad mohawk sect as well as the endless sea of post-punk copycats (most of which have nothing to do with anything resembling ‘post punk’ in spirit).” 

Continuing, they assert: “This album is an attempt to liberate the wisdom, stupidity, and joy of the teenage state of mind. Despite myriad flaws, the platonic Teenager has a very real and profound access to spiritual truth that one shouldn’t neglect. The pure at heart Teenager, for example, wouldn’t jump through imaginary hoops to justify or ignore state-sponsored genocide. They’ll just (loudly) say ‘NO!’.”

By way of introduction, NODEGA have also dropped ‘Rot In Helvetica”s lead single ‘Quantify’, which takes aim at our strange compulsion to “rank (and quantifying via number or star) every experience”. Check it out below.