ナルコレプシン (Narukorepusinn) - Yasi
Sunflowers - Dreamweaver
Endless Voyage, out February 7th via Stolen Body Records.
Wire - Cactused
Mind Hive, out January 24th via Pink Flag.
Clamm - Liar
Beseech Me, out January 24th.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Our Quiet Whisper
All In Good Time, out December 13th via Castle Face Records.
Pinko - Rats In Reverie
You & You, out December 13th via Hex Records.
Alien Nosejob - HC45
Alien Nosejob seem to become the kind of band where Ausmuteants singer Jake Robertson only does whatever the fuck he wants to at the moment. They started out as a more or less exact copy of his more well known band, then it started to get unpredictable as they ventured into retro tearjerker power pop, among other things. Also, we had to suffer through a maxi single of ultra-cheesy synth pop. This time they make it easier for me: It's hardcore. It rotates 45 times a minute. And it's very good.
Album-Stream →Acrylics - Sinking In
After a number of incredible EPs, it took Santa Rosa's Acrylics a good two years to assemble their fist long player, which - to no real surprise - turns out to be their most varied and mature chunk of noise. Their ambitious, but simultaneously always perfectly coherent mix of styles draws a perfect triangle between the dark post punk of Criminal Code, hardcore punk of the quite punishing variety reminiscent of Cülo, Hate Preachers, Impulso and forward thinking Postcore of acts like Ivy and Bad Breeding.
Album-Stream →Yammerer - Reality Escape Resort
Two preview tracks from this (probably) british band's debut EP already made me kinda hungry for more of their shit and now the record's other two songs prove we haven't been promised too much. A soundscape of restless garage punk unfolds, transporting a feeling of widescreen spaciousness you rarely get to witness in this genre - somewhat as if recent Uranium Club met Radio Birdman and Modern Lovers, complemented by a bit of MX-80 weirdness. Also, the epic closer Seasons 13-31 seems to have taken some cues from Wipers' Youth Of America.
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