This neat cassette out on Weather Vane Records by a group sharing members with Vintage Crop among others, immediately captivates with an absolutely timeless make of elegant and well-rounded power pop, supported by way above-average songwriting chops. Think of a couple of more or less contemporary groups like Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, Tommy and the Commies, Bad Sports, The Wind-Ups, Datenight, Ex-Gold, Vacation, Mr. Teenage, Yups, Frozen Teens… pick your poison! Though the whole thing may be a bit too front-loaded with most of the hits residing on side a, which leads to a bit of a slump in the second half… kinda like like a meandering Twin Peaks season 2 it still manages to work itself back up to a glorious finale in the closing track Hold Music.
These New Yorkers' latest LP is basically just an expanded version of their 2021 EP Triangulation by way of Strangulation, though i'm gonna say the addition of the four opening tracks elevates the whole thing to another level altogether, counterbalancing the kinda rigid, somewhat more late-eighties noise rock-leaning tracks of said EP with a fresh infusion of chaos that really seals the deal here, quite obviously taking cues from local no wave history - both the unstructured noisy kind and the funky James Chance-isms - as well as a bunch of other early eighties proto noise rock acts á la Flipper, Primitive Calculators and, most of all, No Trend.
Here's yet another pair of moderately egg-related small fry in the form of two new digital (?) 2-track singles. First off there's Minneapolis garage punks Liquid Lunch delivering two excellent new blasts on a fucking holiday-themed release in fucking April which then again, i'd say is actually one of the most egg things possible to do. Then, there's also a new release by Melbourne DIY magician Billiam which unsurprisingly doesn't disappoint either. The title track indeed appears to take some cues from Jackson Reid Briggs and his current band Split System in particular.
