VICE compared the NYC duo's early work to Lightning Bolt and The Melvins, but Bangladeafy's sixth album, Vulture, explores a synth-heavy strain of industrial-punk that teeters between euphoric hooks and apocalyptic anxiety. Reference points include Devo, Nine Inch Nails, The Locust, M.I.A., and Murderpact. Frontman Jon Ehlers describes the new sonic path as an inevitable return to roots: "My true passion has always been synthesizers."
Another layer to the story: Ehlers has lived with severe hearing loss since early childhood. He states: "I’ve certainly faced criticism, or murmurings that I might not have what it takes to hang with the big dogs, so to speak, because there’s a limit to what a hearing disabled musician might be able to do. If anything, I feel that I've proved myself and have worked harder to get there."
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“[Bangladeafy] have backed up their wacky name with similarly skewed prog, noise, punk, and more since day one... ['Pastures'] rattles along like an angry screed of poetry with sparse, dislocated drums and some pretty radical synth stabs."
–Fecking Bahamas
“Bangladeafy continue to cross the beams of organic and electronic sound on new track ‘Prism.’ The brutal-prog duo’s synth-focused fourth album ‘Vulture’ lands June 21… Bangladeafy makes music that’s nearly as upfront as their moniker — a portmanteau referring to the Bangladeshi heritage of drummer Atif Haq and the hearing loss suffered by multi-instrumentalist Jon Ehlers.”
–Flood
"There is such a bevy of uniquely sounding tracks and inspired musical journeys on 'Vulture' that you’d never imagine it was the brainchild of two people. And that’s the allure of Bangladeafy. This record was meant to be listened to sequentially, and the patience pays off in dividends once everything is all said and done."
–Ghost Cult
"'Beautification' may be a guitar-less synth punk song, but the lack of guitars doesn’t weaken the punk aggression in this song one bit. The relentless rhythm drives the song home, and the synths are punchy and fast, like The Screamers meet Lightning Bolt."
–New Noise
"For anyone in the know and experienced in Bangladeafy’s previous five outings, it’s a given that any new endeavor will be loud, obtuse and jagged, and have unexpected hooks for days. For newcomers that are hungry for something different and, dare I say, visionary, their upcoming sixth effort, 'Vulture,' is exactly what the doctor ordered... A noisy-electronic-metalifabulous amalgamation, the likes that no one is doing or replicating."
–Nine Circles
"Jon Ehlers and Atif Haq have for more than a decade been blazing through the New York City underground as the post-industrial punk duo Bangladeafy. From the band’s new album comes the 'Pastures' single, which sees the pair continuing down the synthpunk path laid down by 2020’s 'Housefly,' exchanging the bass guitar for synthesizers to result in an explosive and noisy onslaught."
–ReGen
"Bangladeafy pick over the rotted carcass of synth-punk and pluck the tastiest morsels to vomit back into your gaping, bird-brained maw on their fierce and fearsome new album 'Vulture'..."
–Tinnitist
"Bangladeafy are one of the weirdest, most creatively daring and interesting bands in the Brooklyn heavy music scene. With their new album 'Vulture' they seem to evolve more fully from their prog punk roots and into something far noisier, weirder and more powerful... It's a truly transcendent, weird and poetic offering that few other acts could ever emulate."
–Two Guys Metal Reviews
"Bangladeafy's a very cool band, very synth-driven, but still very experimental... Jon [Ehlers] has some similarities to Trent Reznor."
–Vinyl & Vision
"New York noise rock duo Bangladeafy are back with their first new album in four years, an anxiety-ridden sprint through cacophonous bursts of sonic violence in the lineage of groups like Ruins and Lightning Bolt. On 'Vulture,' they continue to showcase the pronounced industrial influence of their past album, 'Housefly'... It’s abrasive, menacing, and awesome."
–Treble
"Bangladeafy are one of the weirdest, most creatively daring and interesting bands in the Brooklyn heavy music scene. With their new album 'Vulture' they seem to evolve more fully from their prog punk roots and into something far noisier, weirder and more powerful... It's a truly transcendent, weird and poetic offering that few other acts could ever emulate."
–Two Guys Metal Reviews
"Bangladeafy's a very cool band, very synth-driven, but still very experimental... Jon [Ehlers] has some similarities to Trent Reznor."
–Vinyl & Vision
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