LECTRICS formed in September 2024 in Barcelona, though none of the members are from there. Singer/guitarist Bobby Wade (Southampton, UK) had given up playing for 10 years before listening to Dostoevsky and deciding to ‘step over it’. He met Juan Agudelo (Medellin, Colombia) at a QOTSA show, and they bonded over a love for The Mars Volta and decided to start the band. After trying out a few drummers, they found Ivan Montesano (Madrid, Spain), who immediately showed the powerful and precise backbone they needed. Next up came Bobby Johansson (Stockholm, Sweden), who had been a housemate and immediately got the band’s influences like Richard Hell and Fugazi, and was perfect to round out the band’s dual guitar attack.
They recorded their first EP, The Mommas and the Tapas, that December, and in came Franky Ortiz (Barcelona, Spain) to round the band out on synths. The first EP was mainly songs Wade had worked on years ago before giving up, plus the first song written with LECTRICS, “This Land Is My Land.”
With the lineup fully established and a new sense of love for creation, LECTRICS unleash their latest creation, the explosive “Move, Sucker!” The song plays as the title suggests, an unapologetic onslaught of refreshing electro-punk aggression. The song jumps out of the gate with colorful guitars that go from breezy to searing tempos in the blink of an eye, colliding with crashing drums to evoke punk excellence. This is an anthem for those looking for a motivator to get them moving, but lyrically, a much darker truth is at play. LECTRICS uses the warping melodies of the arrangement to deliver poetically captivating songwriting. “Move, Sucker!” more so explores the downfalls of pushing those away than it does to champion an anti-authority attitude, although one could collect both sensations from this song. Rather than use this single to encourage isolation, the band warns of the dangers of it before our eyes, urging the listener to find a balance. Underneath the palpable prowess of “Move, Sucker!” lies a cathartic release of emotions, creating an enticing sonic conflict that will have you hanging on every move from LECTRICS from here on out.
“The intro/outro to ‘Move Sucker’ was the very first thing I wrote after picking up the guitar again after so many years. It means the world to hear it on the record and to have played it out in our first shows. It means rebirth and rediscovery for me,” explains Wade.
