{"id":40735,"date":"2018-09-27T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T10:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=40735"},"modified":"2018-09-28T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:37:21","slug":"blxpltn-no-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/09\/blxpltn-no-english\/","title":{"rendered":"BLXPLTN &#8211; &#8216;No English&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Austin BLXPLTN are a punk rock band who&#8217;ve paired their examinations of race, class, gender, and sexuality with incendiary music, which kicks hard at conventions and boundaries.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their first two full length albums, and several standalone singles were filled with righteous rage, and this is expected to continue with their third album, which they&#8217;ve warned will be rougher, louder, more uncompromising and more punk than anything they&#8217;ve ever done before. First track is &#8216;No English&#8217;, and critics across the US are sittingup and taking notice.<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;No English&#8217; shows the band as how they are: the lyrics spat out by frontman TaSzlin Muerte pull no punches in their appraisal of current politicians, alongside the manic riffing and overdriven guitar of Jonathan Horstmann. There&#8217;s also the powerful drumming from Jeremy Kivett, the most recent addition to BLXPLTN. The clip shows each of the band in equal measure, as well as other characters in the clip, including a shirtless, tattooed man, who runs in slow motion away from an armed ICE agent, on a hot Texas night. Headlights on parked cars throw shadows across the border crossing, and tree branches hand heavily over the performance area. The clip cuts between the musicians and the chase, all while providing a visual metaphor for the anxiety of the pursued. Ultimately he&#8217;s the quarry for a paramilitary force, and his terror is palpable.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find out more about BLXPLTN online on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BLXPLTN.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ig70wCwGtA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin BLXPLTN are a punk rock band who&#8217;ve paired their examinations of race, class, gender, and sexuality with incendiary music, which kicks hard at conventions and boundaries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":40736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,9,640],"tags":[3002,16733,144,77,370,1945,764,7352,203,617],"class_list":["post-40735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-austin","tag-blxpltn","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-punk","tag-punk-rock","tag-rock","tag-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-aB1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60983,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/03\/blxpltn-zzeerro-dying-for-you-to-get-rich\/","url_meta":{"origin":40735,"position":0},"title":"BLXPLTN &#8211; &#8216;ZZEERRO (Dying for You to Get Rich)&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"21\/03\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Austin's BLXPLTN have taken their music and weaponised it to show that the unthinkable is the new normal.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BLXPLTN-press.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BLXPLTN-press.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BLXPLTN-press.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BLXPLTN-press.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BLXPLTN-press.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48219,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/03\/a-boi-see-through-chapter-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":40735,"position":1},"title":"A BOI &#8211; &#8216;See Through&#8217; (Chapter 1)","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"23\/03\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A BOI - aka the cleverly named Absolutely Bereft Of Imagination - is the latest project from Austin Texas artist, TaSzlin, better known as one third of the uncompromising social justice warrior trio, BLXPLTN. 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