City Speak – Daydream League
Holding Water releases August 22nd via Snappy Little Numbers Quality Audio Recordings.
Chubby And The Gang – To Be Young
And Then There Was... releases September 15th via Flatspot Records.
Webb Chapel – Springtime
World Cup releases September 2th via Strange Mono.
A Place To Bury Strangers – Disgust
Synthesizer releases October 4th via Dedstrange.
Adhesive – I Hate Man
Verspannungskassette #78 (C-90)
Spodee Boy Moonshine Canyon
Twisted Teens The Valley Spirit Never Dies
Temporary Curse Frontier Days
Ismatic Guru How Do They Know?
Electric Prawns 2 G Spot
Five Bucks Super Stanzy Roks
Amor, Muerte Y Leonora Es El Final
Pet Cop Para$ite
Seagate Dungeon Crawl
Stfubran Porky
Shament Laserkrieg
Big Bopper Piss-Ant
Assistert Sjølmord Toxicity
En Love Waking World
Armor Freedom
Dope Sweater Paranoiathon
Subdued Who Dies if England Lives
Hellscape Cujo
Ejaculators Deadly Romance
Pack Rat Heart Beat
The Sad Burn
Zikin Lohija
Ozo Bozo Tantrum
Showroom Dummies Foam Miner
Delivery Digging The Hole
Criminal My Madball
The Drin Elude the Torch
Pablo X Broadcasting Services Hunted
Negative Gears Attention To Detail
Festa del Perdono Sentiero
Palmar de Troya Big Black
Pyrex Alley Katz
Rider/Horse Headache Powder
Screensaver Permanence
Kalte Hand Kessel
Silicon Rapture Party
The Heterosexuals Call 422-424
Klavo Berlin Blitz
Jug Gates of Steel
Erik Nervous R'G'M
Monda Sirens Allure
.cum I'm Cumming For You
Tension Pets Man of Opinion
Teens Vacant Lot
Negative Gears – Moraliser
It took them over five years to follow up on their excellent debut EP from 2019, but at long last here it is, the first LP by Sydney's Negative Gears, on which they present an even more pitch-black, stone-cold vision than before, funneled into significantly matured and refined compositions and arrangements. Comparisons to US groups like early Institute, Rank/Xerox, Criminal Code and Nag still apply, kind of... but also i can sense some kinship with the widescreen drama of berlin-based duo Dead Finks and its sort-of precursor group, New Zeeland's Trust Punks. Then again, songs like the opening track Negative Gear and Pills carry some of the hallmarks of british post punk powerhouses like Girls In Synthesis and Sievehead while in calmer moments like Ants and Zoned, a melancholia and elegance reminiscent of recent Marbled Eye or Tube Alloys shines through.
Album-Stream →Monda – VIII
The follow-up to this Totowa, New Jersey group's recent opus Stiff Jumbo, which consisted of no less than fourty below-one-minute punk smashers, comes across as a somewhat more conventional offering of catchy tunes located inbetween the sonic parameters of garage punk, noise pop and oldschool '80s/'90s indie rock. What hasn't changed at all though is the sheer strength and consistency of these songs, whose songwriting excellence never falters even once. This shit is easily on a level with highly regarded contemporaries of the Vaguess, Booji Boys, Datenight, Bad Sports, Vacation, Teen Line, The Wind-Ups and Bed Wettin' Bad Boys caliber.
Album-Stream →Showroom Dummies – Showroom Dummies
This latest EP by this Winnipeg, Manitoba group treats us to four excellent blasts on the rougher end of the garage-/fuzz-/synth punk spectrum, hammered home by a completely unhinged madman vocal performance. This EP is a safe-bet crowdpleaser guaranteed to delight connoiseurs of shit á la The Gobs, 3D and the Holograms, Ghoulies, Daughter Bat and the Lip Stings and Factory City Children, concluding in a fully charged burst of hardcore punk evoking further comparisons to groups such as Witch Piss, Spewed Brain and Geoduck Diodes.
Album-Stream →Assistert Sjølmord – Assistert Sjølmord
Hardcore punk from Oslo, Norway that sticks out with some rough garage edge to their certainly simple and straightforward, yet undoubtedly elegant and well-balanced punk attacks and the undiluted fury transported by a thoroughly caffeinated frontwoman. All in all, this shit hits me kinda like a more stripped-down, fast-and-loose playing variant of swedish heavy hitters Vidro, fused with a generous dose of Judy and the Jerks.
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