Citizens arrest

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Citizens arrest
General information
origin New York (USA)
Genre (s) Hardcore
founding 1989, 2010
resolution 1991
Founding members
singing
 Ted Leo (1989, 2010-2013)
guitar
 Janis Chakars
bass
 Joseph Martin
Drums
 Daryl Kahan
Current occupation
singing
 Daryl Kahan
guitar
 Janis Chakars
bass
 Joseph Martin
Drums
 Derik Moore (since 2015)
former members
Drums
 Patrick Winter (1990–1991, 2010–2015)

Citizens Arrest is an American hardcore band from New York that existed from 1989 to 1991 and reformed in 2010.

history

Citizens Arrest was founded in 1989 by Ted Leo (vocals), Janis Chakars (guitar), Joseph Martin (bass) and Daryl Kahan (drums). They had previously met in a record store specializing in hardcore near the New York hardcore club CBGB . The band name is the title of a track on the debut album of the Boston hardcore band Negative FX . After recording a demo album, singer Leo left the band and Kahan, who also played drums for Born Against , took over. Fanzine maker Patrick Winter became the new Citizens Arrest drummer . Initially, individual pieces by the band were released on hardcore samplers and a grindcore sampler from Slap-a-Ham Records . An EP and an album were produced by Don Fury , and a flexidisc with live recordings from a concert at the CBGB was released. The band belonged to the environment of the Lower East Side club ABC No Rio . The focus there on hardcore bands developed after the CBGB no longer booked hardcore shows for insurance reasons. Citizens Arrest were one of the first hardcore bands to play regularly at ABC No Rio, and the members helped organize the hardcore series of events. Citizens Arrest thus represented an alternative development path for New York Hardcore , which was more shaped by male stereotypes, while the scene in ABC No Rio, which Citizens Arrest helped lead, pursued a policy strictly against sexism and violence. In 1991 the band broke up because of "musical differences". Singer Kahan indicated in an interview that financial reasons could have been behind the breakup: In 1991 Citizens Arrest got the offer to play at one of the lucrative, but from big labels supported "Superbowl of Hardcore" shows, which the band called rejected the impression of a debate in the scene at the time about the pros and cons of artistic independence from big labels. In retrospect, Kahan called this step “the biggest mistake of our career” and suspected that otherwise the band could have released at least one more album or went on a tour.

Daryl Kahan worked as a singer with Assück after the separation from Citizens Arrest . The original singer Ted Leo was the singer of the alternative band Chisel and founded Ted Leo and the Pharmacists in the late 1990s . The other members also remained loyal to the music and sometimes played together in smaller, local hardcore bands. B. Chakars, Martin and Leo at Hell No, who released three albums in the 1990s. In 1994 the German label Lost and Found Records released a Citizens Arrest compilation album with all of the band's songs produced in the studio.

In 2010 Citizens Arrest reformed in the last occupation; For three years the original singer Ted Leo was also there as a second guitarist. In 2015 Patrick Winter left the band and was replaced by Derik Moore.

style

The Canadian Exclaim magazine described in a review the music of the 2011 EP Soaked in Others Blood as "fast punk messages full of fat guitar chords, blitzkrieg-like beats and rough vocals". The German music journalist Matthias Mader subsumes the music of Citizens Arrest under the name "Progcore", which he understands as a fusion of New York Hardcore and Grindcore. He describes the music as "by New York standards very original, (...) rude speedcore" with an independent sound and concise, manic singing. The Ox-Fanzine defines Citizens Arrest's music as a mix of British Crustcore in the style of Extreme Noise Terror and New York Hardcore and rates it as "wilder, more powerful and more energetic" than contemporary NYHC bands. The music journalist Tony Rettman added the EP A Light in the Darkness to his list of "Fifty Essential NYHC 7" Records. The band members themselves describe the Cro-Mags and Cause for Alarm as musical role models. Lyrically, Citizens Arrest sets itself apart from the self-referential "Unity" lyrics of New York Hardcore and focuses on political, anarcho-punk related topics, but without considering themselves as a political band. A stylistic unique selling point within the hardcore scene was the use of motifs from premodern painting for the cover design . for the EP A Light in the Darkness , the image was cloister cemetery in the snow by Caspar David Friedrich used for album Colossus the same picture of Francisco de Goya .

"Citizens Arrest was a hardcore band period. We touched upon political themes in our lyrics but were not a political peace punk band by any means. "

- Daryl Kahan

Discography

  • 1989: Citizens Arrest (Lifetime Records)
  • 1990: A Light in the Darkness ( EP , Wardance)
  • 1990: Citizen Arrest (EP, Rebound Records)
  • 1991: Colossus (Vermiform)
  • 1994: Citizens Arrest ( compilation album , Lost and Found Records )
  • 2011: Soaked in Others Blood (EP, Painkiller Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Koenig: New York Hardcore 1986-1993 . 2009, p. 64 ( archive.org [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b Dave Wilentz: Citizens Arrest . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 8, January 1991, p. 18.
  3. ^ A b Matthias Mader: New York City Hardcore Volume 2: The Sound of the Big Apple . IP Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931624-60-6 , pp. 187 .
  4. ↑ Tony Rettman: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 . 2nd Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-935950-12-7 , pp. 336 .
  5. ^ David Koenig: New York Hardcore 1986-1993 . 2009, p. 64 ( archive.org [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Ox-Fanzine.de: Citizens Arrest: reunion show announced in December. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Exclaim.ca: Ted Leo's Citizens Arrest Release First New Music in 21 Years. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Tony Rettman: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 . 2nd Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-935950-12-7 , pp. 379 .
  9. ^ A b David Koenig: New York Hardcore 1986-1993 . 2009, p. 64 ( archive.org [PDF]).