Anytime Cowboy – With My Demons ———————————– Harry W – Losing My Brain Lovebomb – Rockin in the wrong house Winky Frown – Npc Energy Hot Ocean – Whole Lotta Fuck Emmett O’Connor – Chrome Crusher The Meccaniks – Natural Born Bungee Jumpers – Oh Possum ———————————– The Moids – Human Meat The Bored & Ignored – Crack Killer Rhoads – System Decay Rifle – United State Hot Beer – I Hate People Sometimes Social ills – Dimming Lights Youth Avoiders – No Medal for Failure ———————————– Centipede – Bad Trip High Ideals – Ignorant Flower Power – Innocent Attest – Rot Ultimatum – Foxtrap Invisible Hand – Fuck The World 2 Feeble Minds – Social Tragedy ———————————– Puke Pisstols – She’s Primitive Küken – Grass Green Doe St – Thrill Coffer – (Ain’t No) Holy Ghost Game Show Models – Everything Isnt Gonna Be All Right ———————————– Only God Forgives – Welcome to the Planet of Silence DBR – Hold Me Tight Sunny Bear Forest – Nuisance ———————————– Zulo – Violencia Post Community – Vertices The III – Squeeze ———————————– Station Model Violence – Heat (Single Version) Shrudd – No Man is Good Three Times Cartoon – Classic Style ———————————– Powerplant – Bridge of Sacrifice Cries of Agony – Infinite Lucifer ———————————– Wristwatch – Hints / Dü
The third EP of this Montreal group is yet another irresistible candy seemingly inspired by the more melodic strains of eighties punk somewhere inbetween, say, Fastbacks, late-era Naked Raygun and Hüsker Dü, but also previous-decade revivalist indie punk rockers like Milk Music, California X, Milked and Kicking Spit ain’t too far off either. This time they keep us waiting a bit – until the very last track to be precise – before they fully lean into their trademark heavy metal shredding which has also been the secret ingredient of their brilliant previous EP, but that shall in no way distract from the bucketloads of catchy joy we had along the way leading up to that point too!
The Tampa, Florida group had a neat little demo out late last year already and their newest EP now too sound’s like they mean business with six fresh attacks of rabid and primal hardcore punk built on top of a strong fuzzed-out, KBD-ish garage punk foundation, the singer’s bitten dog vocals almost channelling the insanity of that classic Lumpy & The Dumpers- and Fried E/M era it’s main perpetrator would apparently like to disassiciate from but i’m not gonna let him. Once a Lumpy, forever a Lumpy.
On the excellent demo tape by this group from Shrewsbury, UK, proto- meets garage punk and occasional flashes of NWOBHM-style solos, Stooges meet Saints meet Discharge but also plenty of more recent acts of the Punter, Puffer and Split System variety. A perfect storm of simplicity, raw energy and immediate catchyness.
Hey folks, it took me a bit to finally get that latest batch of blog posts out but just be aware that even when there’s nothing happening on the public-facing end of this blog, there’s always work already going on in the background – so many feeds to get through, so much shit to listen to, sort and curate, mixtapes to be recorded, digitized and timestamped, the actual writing of the posts and their translation (english to german usually ‘cos that’s somehow easier for me), audio to be edited for the radio stream, technical maintenance to be done for my various web projects and presences… heck, even the sloppy proofreading and final publishing of the blog posts takes a couple of hours usually.
I’m doing it all ‘cos i love doing most of that shit. And now there’s also that radio show… yeah you got that right, roughly seven years after i axed the monthly 12XU Radio show, that old bastard just got reanimated, the first edition is in the can already and the show will air every four weeks on the still new-ish and exciting local community station Radio Makro. It’s gonna be german-only for now ‘cos ya know… one thing at a time, though from the March episode onwards i’m also planning – as i feel would be appropriate for a bilingual blog – to poop out an unpolished, low-effort english language edition that’ll premiere either on mixcloud or the 12XU stream or, probably, both, not too long after the initial Radio Makro broadcast so stay tuned for that shit too and mark in your calender the 18th of February when the first new episode premieres at 18:00 Berlin time or 17:00 UTC.
Oh, and you’ve probably already realized there’s a new Mixtape too ‘cos you’re looking at it right now so there’s that. I’m still unsure if i’ll keep those tapes going as ususal or if i’ll just start doing fewer of them or maybe just stop them altogether when my tape deck bites the dust or i run out of my current stash of tapes to record on… still plenty of ’em left though. Just gonna have to see how easily i’m gonna keep up with the workload.
Tracklist
The UTI’s 2079 Harry W Pizza Party Crack Park Short Circuit Ø Shoot! Ty H.O.V. Power Pants Whatever It Takes Problem Addict Frog Guy The Meccaniks Can’t Stop Playing Atari Puke Pisstols Death Comes Today The Moids Maitland Man Bungee Jumpers Bolt Social ills Never Recover Youth Avoiders Short Fuse Forma Nola Erortzen Den Luxury Apartments London Fields Rifle Bastards
Coffer At Long Last The Bored & Ignored Dog Litter Gary and the Shearstons Gnangara Road Attention Deficit 80mg 2 Freedom Tylenol Tight Crying Form L.I.F.E. / BRAINdead Flower Power Water Torture High Ideals Burning Youth Feeble Minds Desensitized Invisible Hand Nuclear War Post Community Cranberry Attest Relentless Ultimatum Don’t Look Up Nourishment The Sand Erodes Cries of Agony Rites ov the Absvrd Jester
Tracklist
Anytime Cowboy Misery Goose Eggs The Whistleblower (I Never Told You Anything You Didn’t Already Know) Hot Face Red Fuzz Game Show Models Opposable Man Zulo Vergüenza Dr. Dence Healthy Human Winky Frown Houseplant Graveyard Lovebomb Dog Only God Forgives Dupont Daisies Завірюга Цифровий Шум Balaclava Dramatic Exit
DBR Pool RRSATZ Radical Banal Stepmother New World Sweet Reaper Meemees Bull Shannon Dragon Boy Spent Film Mercy Killed Cryogenic Division (Oh My) Quick Death Wristwatch Goat Sex Mex No Money Doe St Figure It Out The Clubs Ship Of Fools Sargent Baker Nothing To Me
Well, it took like a year longer than promised but better late than never i guess, here’s finally a new LP of Stockholm’s synth punk bulwark that’s been around for roughly a decade already. So they’ve got nothing to prove at this point anyway and simply deliver yet another brilliant collection of spaced-out garage punk delicacies filled with their trademark Devo-isms and bookended by a couple of somewhat John Carpenter-esque instrumentals to underscore the pervasive cinematic qualities of this record, another killer one at that.
