Punt - The Heat

Label

Trash Casual

The fuzz punk duo Punt create short and sharp sonic explosions that capture the creative collision of vocalist/bassist Eli Frank, and drummer Bill Michel. Strong wills, stronger opinions, and a shared uncompromising outlook on what constitutes musical legitimacy, are served up in two-minute manifestos that’ll kick anyone to the curb in their quest to deliver unflinching realness.

This is some primal energy right here. Sludgy riffs, bruising drums, and crushed vocals that deliver adrenaline shots to the heart of rock and roll.

First forged in the 2010s, Punt initially burned out as quick as they caught fire. Introduced by a mutual friend, Frank and Michel set out to write and record their debut album in a single week. The resulting album Oil was released in 2015 and soon after the duo collapsed under internal tensions.

In the summer of 2021, the duo were drawn back together with the intent to lock horns on another intensive, condensed writing and recording session, this time during one of New York City’s all-time hottest heat waves. The resulting album, The Heat, hauls listeners through the grimy underbelly of the city, exploring the “random terrible thoughts” in Frank’s brain and delivering a fuzzed out and riff heavy salute to all things noir.

“Bill and I got together for a week during a heat wave and that’s exactly what we brought, that heat. This album deals with anger, revenge, passion and murder. We’re both extremely passionate and fiery personalities with an uncompromising vision so these songs reflect the more taboo parts of ourselves and helped us put our energy into something we can be proud of.” – Eli Frank

“Punt has always been about music as a spontaneous social expression…hanging out together in a room and deferring to the voltage and the frequencies instead of really inserting yourself with all of your baggage or over-intellectualizing anything. when i drum in punt i cease being an individual person and really only embody the rhythm section of this band. this album is the purest distillation of that idea…a lot of these tracks are only the second or third time playing them through in their entirety. i’ve always thought that’s what made punt very unique, very special.” – Bill Michel