Post-punkers Autogramm newest single ‘R U Lookin’ 4 Love’

Active members of Vancouver’s incestuous creative scene (the band features members of Destroyer and Black Mountain), Autogramm have penned an album which tells tales of parties past and the joys and pains of growing up in the punk scene.

Guitarist Jiffy Marx and bassist C.C. Voltage met back in the early 90s as teenage skateboarders while playing in punk bands. While sitting on a canal together on a rainy day in Berlin, they hatched a plan to form a band with the intention of touring sunnier destinations. It’s no coincidence then that the band name came to be the German word Autogramm (translation; autograph). Jiffy enlisted The Silo (producer and drummer for Destroyer) while traveling with him in Mexico and the trio was complete.

The new record channels the tongue-in-cheek aggression of Iggy Pop, lo-fi synth nods to Gary Numan along with the joyful chaos of the likes of Sheer Mag and Priests. On new track ‘R U Lookin’ 4 Love’ the band tells us “the song is not at all about love in actuality it is about trying to locate your drug dealer who is strung out and low on product. Moral? Don’t get high on your own supply?”