Genres: Punk / Rock / Post-Rock / Hardcore
/ Post-Hardcore / Emo / Emotive Hardcore / Screamo
/ Emo-violence / Skramz / Noise
Related artists: SeeYouSpaceCowboy, The
Shotgun Message, Meryl Streaker and Allmywisheswerethrondownawellandshoulddiethere.
Country: San Francisco, California USA
Years Active: 2015-2016
Song: "Dance Dance Queer Revolution"
Album: "Demo"
Year: 2016
For fans of: Innards, Deers!, KŸHL, Saetia, Wolves, Sketchbooks, Ogni
Giorno, Sleeper Wave, Pepi Rössler, Matsuri and Flowers Tapes To Pens aka PROPER SCREAMO.
Label(s): Structures//Agony Records / Zegema Beach Records
This post's artist is from the March 2017 Mix. This is track #3.
A few years back I kept hearing about this band called Flowers
Taped To Pens. Apparently they were young and screamy, that's pretty much
all I knew. They disbanded right around the time I checked them out and about a
year later I saw RENÉ DESCARTES' name pop up on a few message boards citing
members of Flowers Taped To Pens. I thoroughly enjoyed the 'Demo'
tape and was ecstatic when Connie (vocals) asked me to help release their
final, self titled cassette which I received in the mail earlier this week.
The 2016 'Demo' is four songs of loose, screamy hardcore.
"You Had Me At 'Noam Chomsky'..." is a 3:30 romp of wailing, loose
and shrieky screamo with strong stylistic ties to Innards and Deers! with
an intro that is likely the best thing the band ever did. "Dance DanceQueer Revolution" boasts some fantastic guitar work that reminds me
of Polina and perhaps even Hot Cross just
before the 20-second mark amidst the excellent use of multiple screamers.
"Solace//Despair (nothing is concrete) employs very engaging and almost
spacey guitars from 1:00 to 1:35 in addition to the vocal insanity that is
typical RENÉ DESCARTES. Closer "...Just the Kids Who Built Community"
really gets going at 50 seconds with driving guitar work that explodes at 1:05
with the crunchiest, thickest and catchiest instrumental work of the release
which is then accentuated with the perfect amount of screeching. At 1:55 the
song sounds like it gets a slight remix with lo-fi, bass heavy breakdowns that
permeates as much noise as hardcore.
The 2017 release of 'René Descartes' showed a heavier emphasis on
spoken, sassy vocals and even more piercing screams, with the instrumentals
more or less following the same path as the debut EP. "Those Lives FoundIn That Time" is the essential song from this posthumous cassette that encapsulates everything the band was about at
the time of their dissolution. "Subjugation of Physical Validation"
is a slow jam with very basic framework and execution, but it holds up well as
an interlude between the two heavier tracks. Closer "Repressed LifeLessons" is the most unstable of the three songs, as the first 22 seconds
are utter chaos and you know the batshit crazy screaming doesn't stop after
that.
Now that RENÉ DESCARTES is dead we have been graced with the birth of SeeYouSpaceCowboy, and for that we can all be thankful. Check out the premiere of their new song here. The following interview excerpt is taken from an upcoming SeeYouSpaceCowboy interview with Connie and will be posted in full next month.
An Interview with CONNIE SGARBOSSA of
RENÉ DESCARTES:
Tell us about your time in Rene Descartes. Do you look back on it fondly?
I do look back fondly on that band, it was really refreshing after being
in San Francisco for over a year and not playing in any bands during that time.
It was really cool to work with Ethan again and Jay from
allmywisheswerethrowndownawellandshoulddiethere, and also meeting Jonathan was
really cool and he is a really awesome person.
Did it dissolve at what may seem like the right time, in hindsight?
Well not really it kinda ended abruptly when our living situation ended
and me and Ethan left the Bay Area, we had plans that we didn't really come to
fruition because of that and I really wish we had more time to flesh out
everything we wanted to do.
What bands would you compare Rene to? What were your influences during that time?
Hmm I am not sure, I asked Ethan to take influence from bands like
Matsuri, Adobe Homes, and The Kodan Armada but I am not sure if he listened to
me haha. Some sass influence definitely started to creep in there as well
towards the end.
When did the band start? What other bands have the members of Rene been in?
The band started sometime around December 2015 and ended like June 2016,
so it was really short lived. Well Jay was in AMWWTDAWASDT like i
mentioned earlier, me and Ethan were in Flowers Taped To Pens together and I
had also played in Meryl Streaker as well, I am completely drawing a blank on
the name but Jonathan played in a twinkly indie rockish band before.
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DISCOGRAPHY
2016 - Demo cassetteEP (stream/donate/buy here)
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(2017) RENÉ DESCARTES - "Those Lives
Found In That Time" (from 'René Descartes')
(2017) RENÉ DESCARTES - "Repressed
Life Lessons" (from 'René Descartes')
(2016) RENÉ DESCARTES - "You Had Me
At ‘Noam Chomsky’..." (from 'Demo')
(2016) RENÉ DESCARTES - "Dance
Dance Queer Revolution" (from 'Demo')
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RENÉ DESCARTES
additional links
Order final cassette release from Zegema BeachRecords OR Structures//Agony Records
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