Kinski - Punching Goodbye Out Front

What this video is

Released in August 2007 on Sub Pop Records, 'Punching Goodbye Out Front' is a track from Kinski's album Down Below It's Chaos — the band's third full-length for the label. Kinski, a Seattle-based four-piece, occupied a distinct niche within the mid-2000s American underground: rooted in noise-rock, krautrock repetition, and avant-psych, yet distributed by the institution most associated with grunge's commercial…

Why it matters

Documents a critically significant moment in Pacific Northwest avant-rock: the point at which a resolutely instrumental, experimentally inclined band — described by NME as 'like Sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge' — deliberately pivoted toward structured song forms and vocals…