Violin – Grim Depths
Violin releases January 26th via Iron Lung Records.
Crawlspace – Not There
My God... What’ve I Done? releases January 26th via Iron Lung Records.
Verspannungskassette #67 (C-60)
Gremlin Same Fate
Roo Stafford Going Blind
Achterlicht Nieuwe Mul
Kiégett Föld Érzelem Rendőrség
Cult Crime Stompin’ On Your Flowers
Wasted Denim I Got Better Things To Do
Bad Shout Took me a Minute
The Vortex A.W.O.L.
Shrudd Machine Lungs
Termite Visions
Silicon New Nightmare
Excited To Die Toxic Interests
Useless Info (unknown title)
Spirokete Road To Our Future
Lexicon Dirty Bed
Dente Canino Alerta Vermelho
Madak Choe Fascist Creed
Sikm Sikm
Alamoans Closed-Circuit Television
Shawnis And The Shimmers Munchies
Fungas Hats Off to the Five Bazaars
Factoids End/Night
Ambulanz Race Horse
Metdog Paranoid at the Checkout
Hygiene L.T.N.
Media Puzzle Blastin’
Mould Birdsong
Library Card Cognitive Dissonance
Coeval Endless
Girls In Synthesis Sinking Feeling
Witching Waves Vessel
Bigsharebag Skullet
The Vortex – The Vortex
The Santa Ana, California group follows up on last year’s kickass Executive Dysfunction EP with an equally exciting successor (albeit one consisting mostly of re-recordings of previously known tracks) on which once again timeless garage punk stylings meet plenty of oldschool hardcore energy and KBD-related depravity. A fun ride throughout whose overall vibes and occasional blues- and cowpunk leanings this time around call to mind early Dicks, among other things.
Album-Stream →Ambulanz – II
An excellent second tape by this Leipzig group dabbling in pretty much exactly the catchy and playful kind of blend inbetween the worlds of garage- and post punk you’ve come to expect coming out of that local scene which ain’t a bad thing at all – it’s all quality shit and friends of fellow Leipzig groups á la Exwhite, Laff Box, Lassie and Onyon will surely have a ball with this one too!
Album-Stream →Ghlow – Big City
Levitate releases March 8th via PNKSLM Recordings.
Vampire – Built For Decline
What Seems Forever Can Be Broken releases soon™ via Televised Suicide.
Shrudd – Microbiome / Bizarro
Two new EPs by some Louisville, Kentucky group who’ve apparently released a ton of shit already but are certainly new to me. The Microbiome EP delights with quirky and energetic garage-/synth punk in the vein of Billiam, Spodee Boy, Gholies, early Erik Nervous, Spits, Why Bother? as well as classic Reatard-related artifacts. A nice companion piece then is the more hardcore-minded Bizarro EP dabbling in a way rougher aesthetic of fuzzed-out oldschool mayhem.
Album-Stream →Achterlicht – Demo II
Demo number two of this Haarlem, Netherlands group seamlessly carries on with the fun and excitement of its predecessor in the form of no-frills catchy, simple and effective garage- and synth punk smashers sure to please friends primarily of other euro acts á la Dadar, Shitty Life and Mitraille.
Album-Stream →Gremlin – Same Fate / Bliss
Following their still fresh, sensational debut EP, this new 2-track digital single of Cincinnati’s Gremlins can do no wrong either, Same Fate being a snappy and perfectly economical garage punk ditty while Bliss once again taps into their more psych-infused melodic sensibilities with some distinct hints of Radioactivity, Ex-Gold or Bad Sports.
