“It’s a shame that being an all-girl band is still seen as a gimmick,” says Maha, lead singer and guitarist of all female trio The Kut; “There’s always a lot of focus put on it, but we are all serious musicians. We love female fronted acts, but for us the main focus has always been the music.” Self-styled as ‘basement rock’, The Kut present a sonic collage that evokes everything that made the 1990’s alternative rock scene such a beautifully broken beast: thick slabs of fuzzy guitar, drawn from the core of grunge’s bitter heart, to ethereal passages of twinkling atmospherics that pay homage to the likes of My Vitriol and early Radiohead. Vocalist Maha explains the artistic process behind the creation of the release’s artwork…
“Our Make Up EP artwork was designed Echo Beat Studios, being the tag for artist Peter Jones. Despite the fact his name sounds like a department store, he’s pretty anti-commercialist in everything he does. The majority of his art is politically orientated stuff, so you can get prints of his that show the KFC guy with horns or Mickey Mouse being painted by sweat shop workers. He also does some great stencil work on musician portraits including Bowie, Hendrix or Robert Smith. His work is essentially modern street art, with some 60s influence along the way. Although in the track that the title is taken from, ‘Make Up’ was a metaphor for the way that words are a mask for emotions, the actual make up image of the lips was a real stand out piece of art for us and something we felt represented us as female musicians too. The dripping lipstick gave the art the visual edge that made it fit with the song and the tracks, the idea of a melting facade.”
The Kut release ‘Make Up’ 18/08/14 via Criminal Records https://www.facebook.com/thekutgirlsrock
Check out the video for ‘Mario’ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6u2AsuNQHA
