Fuck, there’s been way too much awesome music lately so a C-90 wouldn’t suffice and Verspannungskassette #47 has to be another double feature. Well it’s almost fucking christmas time anyway so for the occasion i’m picking the finest second hand garbage tape out of my cassette dump and even pull out a NOS sealed BASF thingy… you get older, you need such luxury. So let’s get this shit over with, starting off with a special announcement courtesey of Klint that hopefully makes you wanna listen to 12XU Radio as much as 12XU Radio hopefully makes you wanna listen to Klint. All the roughest shit is on side a. For your prescribed dose of garage punk go straight to side b. Noise rock and gloomy post punk to make you wanna jump off a bridge on side c. Melodic punk and power pop to restore your sanity on side d.
Klint 12xu Radio Drýsildjöfull Helgiathofn Ruben Riley Not The Sharpest Tool Rolex Hey Sunshine Shake Chain Copy Me Power Flower Power Flower Power Flea Collar Buttcrack Man Shitty Life Out Of The Scheme Sid Eargle Chud Babies Snorkel Half-Life Dumb Idea D.H.Y. Butcher’s Laugh Mental Hygiene Unit
Memory Ward In Your Ear Phantom Canker Gamma Dressing Z-Pak Ken Doll’s Lament (Boyhood) Exaltarist Violent Intruder Anti-Machine Too Many Eyes Unknown Liberty Children Violin Betrayed Nohz Brief Lights, Forever In Pain Pissy Sediento Special Branch Lethal Force
Last Quokka Eat The Rich New Buck Biloxi Dark Star Alien Nose Job Moldy Dough Exwhite Excess Crime Waves No Reason 2 Live No Brains Certified Mullet Hood Rats Won’t Be A Victim Thee Deluxe Faded
Spam Mi Amigx Pixel Teo Wise Merda x3 Lymes Waiting Impatiently Nick Normal Strange Notes Gee Tee Find The Beat Busted Head Racket WYL2K? Oyo La Lefa Captain Kazan Late 4 Work
Big Hog Coup de Gras Red Mass Wonder Secrets Of Health And Prosperity (Ft. Slates) Spiral Rash Autodevour Neon Kittens Planet Rider/Horse Great Innings Misere Kontrolle
Dead Mammals King Pink Trigger Cut Landlord Can Kicker Disassociate Now Swallow the Rat Other Rooms Gaffer Social Plomb Bright Life
Kitchen’s Floor Thirty-Five Zero Percent APR Midnight Decomisos La Toledana Deprisa, Deprisa Víctima Del Vaciamiento We Don´t Get Along Shux (I Don’t Wanna) Indoor Toilet Delivery Good The Chisel Keep it Schtum
Sklitakling Staten Postage Nostalgia Avions Fields Of Gold Rifle Fascist Cops Nasty Party Monochromatic TV Finnogun’s Wake Lovers All Mess Don’t Look Back Smirk Souvenir
Great fun as always, the newest EP by Italy’s Shitty Life on which they once again infuse their garage punk with tons of hardcore speed and energy (or vice versa), making for another straightforward no-frills attack that will surely please sympathizers of acts á la Crisis Man, Dadar, Gluer or Easers.
This weeks prime exhibit unearthed from the bermuda triangle of Garage-, Synth- and Eggpunk-related dementia comes from a bunch of hungarian folks letting loose a racket that leaves nothing be desired for connoiseurs of the genre, scratching an itch similar to well known genre entities á la Ghoulies, Research Reactor Corp., Slimex, Gee Tee or Set-Top Box.
I overlooked this this gem by South Carolina dude or band Sid Eargle the first time around so i’m glad the greek label Body Blows shoved this in my face a second time. Hidden inbetween a mess of instrumentals and interludes there’s also an excellent album to be found plundering away at oldschool garage and punk history with an undeniable Dead Boys vibe, among other things.
This neat little tape on Phoenix, Arizona label Total Peace delivers yet another burst of rough-as-fuck noise-infested hardcore punk with a weirdly melodic undercurrent to bash your head against.
Back from the literal ashes of a certain practice space apocalypse, noise rockers Trigger Cut return as strong and vital as ever with their newest LP which sees the group increasingly carving out their own little place inside their genre while skillfully paying hommage to numerous classics all the while – think of shit like Bastro, Distorted Pony, anything Albini-related… also some real surprises here, like the opener Water Fukkery, having a melodic oldschool emo-/postcore vibe to it reminiscent of classic acts in the vicinity of Drive Like Jehu, Autoclave, Quicksand or Jawbox. Without question this is their most diverse, inventive and playful record to date.
A super effective bunch of straightforward punk smashers by a Perth grounp – simple at first glance yet always carefully constructed for maximum impact. Plausible comparisons from recent years would include bands such as Xetas, Cool Jerks, Flowers of Evil or Dead Years while from long before that, you might see flashes of Naked Raygun, Laughing Hyenas, Hot Snakes, Man Sized Action and the like…
Just a quck hint here about three excellent new tapes courtesey of the ever-reliable 11 PM Records. The post-/math-/weirdcore powerhouse Rolex doesn’t need any introduction, i think, delivering a snappy three-and-a-half minutes long fireworks of eleborate, hyperactice and chaotic postcore. Phantom then represent something of an opposite to that with oldschool hardcore punk of the most primal and unruly kind. Z-Pak, last but not least, appear to to combine the qualities of both aforementioned acts. What’s not to love about that?
