Excellent shit as usual via Total Punk. This New York group's debut LP certainly won't open a new chapter for pitch black post punk, yet it manages to captivate nonetheless, by means of sheer force and intensity rather than finesse, charging up a sound familiar to fans of, say, Criminal Code, Sievehead or Rank/Xerox with a raw energy akin to Atlanta groups Nag and Predator, some of the psychedelic undercurrents of stuff á la Public Interest, Waste Man or Public Eye.
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Funny what a few years of eggpunk-related insanity do to your brain. When Channel 83's previous EP dropped in 2019, i considered this shit to be pretty far out there and totally bonkers while in '23, i can't help but think they fit right in with the current wave of quirky synthpunk acts. I don't consider that a bad thing at all though. These new songs rip!
Bevvitched or Bevvildered releases June 2nd.
Watermelon releases June 23rd via Dirt Cult Records.
Destroy All Gondolas / Gūtara Kyō split 7" releases May 26th via Slovenly Recordings.
Imploders releases June 16th via Static Shock Records.
Jupiter releases July 21st via Thrill Jockey Records.
Welcome To Clarko releases May 26th via Iron Lung Records.
Feed The Clones Pt. 1 releases May 26th via Iron Lung Records.
Dressed in Trenches releases July 7th via Matador Records.
