There will be creation after destruction, you'll see!

October 10, 2023 5:08 PM

As a fan of crunchy rawk, weird sci-fi and hideously cool haircuts, After Destruction, the newish music video by the Mexican band Descates a Kant, basically plunged a big hypodermic needle of joy directly into my black, shriveled heart. If there was an ass-kicking rock number in The Fifth Element, it would be this. The band's even newer follow-up, Raindrops of Poison, is only slightly less fantastic. Goodbye, User!
posted by Ursula Hitler (20 comments total)

After Destruction tickled my fancy as I've been very engrossed with The Culture series and this was just the retro sci-fi vibe I needed. Not sure what I'd call the aesthetic, but it's got some kind of twisted Kubrick 2001 vibes with The Shining turned up.
posted by daHIFI at 5:58 PM on October 10, 2023

I'm already looking forward to thier third concept album.
posted by B3taCatScan at 6:02 PM on October 10, 2023

PEASANT, CARRYING STICKS: We should have more bands with catchy hooks and sci-fi uniforms.
ME, INEXPLICABLY POPPING OUT OF WELL: And yet you are not listening to Polysics. Curious! I am very intelligent.

this video is absolutely great, thanks
posted by phooky at 6:17 PM on October 10, 2023 [10 favorites]

I love the dueling-St Vincents* in the middle.

For more Mexican rock, I'm very partial to The Warning, especially this live version of their song Evolve.

*guitars
posted by signal at 6:19 PM on October 10, 2023 [5 favorites]

LET MY ALGORITHM BE ROCK /bangs head
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 6:36 PM on October 10, 2023

Woo! They give me slight Polysics vibes. I just started listening to their first album from 2006 and I'm loving it so far. Thanks for sharing!
posted by donuy at 6:38 PM on October 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

That was amazing.
posted by gwint at 6:44 PM on October 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

What a joy! Thanks!
posted by chronkite at 7:15 PM on October 10, 2023

Hell yeah! They confuse me and engage me and make me want more; in a sort of post-cool space glam clean punk way.
posted by SaltySalticid at 7:36 PM on October 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

This is pretty awesome. If you are a fan of “rocket roll” I will also recommend the Phenomenuats on a mission to bring rock around the galaxy.
posted by CostcoCultist at 8:53 PM on October 10, 2023

Damn it. Descartes a Kant, with an r. And I don't know why they're called that, either. Hopefully an informative Wikipedia page will be forthcoming.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 9:09 PM on October 10, 2023 [2 favorites]

From this interview:

{interviewer:} Let's talk about the band’s name. It’s two philosophers, Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant.

Petrova: Basically, it’s like an analogy to this confluence of postures and ideological philosophy shit that is much like what happens with our sound. If you see genres like ideas, they all come together in this unique, alien, punk music that includes lots and lots of musical forms. Although they’re opposite, it doesn’t matter.

So... opposing philosophies coming together I guess. (In English it would be "Descartes to Kant")
posted by mmoncur at 9:46 PM on October 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

There's a wikipedia page ....
posted by mbo at 5:01 AM on October 11, 2023

Wow colour input high! 💛❤️💜💚
posted by Zumbador at 5:04 AM on October 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

I seriously thought they were Broken Peach and kept asking where the other three singers were.
posted by autopilot at 7:30 AM on October 11, 2023

Very nice!
posted by The Half Language Plant at 11:55 AM on October 11, 2023

I take it then that Ursula Hitler's blackened shriveled heart is apparently rehydrated and beating once more. The last Van Der Valk episode comes to mind as well.
posted by y2karl at 4:12 PM on October 11, 2023

My heart requires regular infusions of loud, joyous glam space rock or it turns into a bitter little raisin. Thanks to Descartes a Kant it is plump, pink and moist, for now.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 6:50 PM on October 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

That made no sense until I googled Descartes a Kant. Equal parts Punk, Metal, Pop, Shoegaze and Cabaret, eh? Man, I am so past my Sell By date...
posted by y2karl at 11:17 AM on October 12, 2023

The Devo is strong in this one
posted by Fupped Duck at 11:08 AM on October 16, 2023