Supera Morza - Scrubber

BIMM Manchester Weekly Features 2nd Issue

An all-out assault on the senses, there is nowhere to hide from the cry that can be echoed across the country: failure. Supera Morza front the charge into a political warzone with ‘Scrubber’, calling out left, right and centre. Their shared anger at the UK’s leadership is no secret.

With a visceral tone, Scrubber is cynical and energetic from the word go. The ‘alternative quartet from the north’ leave no spectrum unfilled, with crunchy guitars, punky drums and no lack of distortion. Living up to its name, the track is dirty and loud, employing heavily produced instrumental wails and backing vocals repeating their motive. While the lead vocals are generally more emotion and less clean, the backing soars high, especially towards the end, and creates a wonderful harmony of direct angst mixed with sarcastic playfulness. A bridge featuring panning chatter is followed by an instrumental meltdown of noise from guitars and smashing percussion.

From their album art it would be hard to be distracted from Supera Morza’s intention: a visage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson not looking his best. The lyrics of Scrubber are accusatory and take no subtleties to highlight a leadership which needs scrubbing clean. Supera Morza want to share their track far and wide to leave no ambiguity about their stance on current events, and the rallying of fellow musicians and young people would likely follow.

‘If one song needs to be heard and shared that highlights the anger, frustration and feeling of being let down by our leaders, ‘Scrubber’ is that song.’

The band’s own image is that of realistic life for the Manchester youth, skipping any aesthetic formalities and going straight to the derelict industrials and graffitied Northern Quarter bars. Chasing the dream that many of us have held before, Supera Morza are proud to advertise their following of the ‘age old tradition of four school friends […] who formed a band and dreamt of changing the world’. If they can continue to speak to the dejected and average young adult and keep their creative mixes on point they may be in for a solid chance of it.

Scrubber will be released on the 26th of March via CD Baby, along with a video that will be available on YouTube.