The Heartbeeps – Ain’t No Crime
Cum Together releases March 3rd via Slovenly Recordings.
Helicon – Flume
God Intentions releases April 28th via Fuzz Club Records.
Verspannungskassette #50 (C-60)
Kalle Hygien & The Dog Pound The Detester
Class Burning Cash
Clickbaiters Lousy Friend
Lucy & The Drill Holes Interobang!
Spam Descartable
Deformative Gotta Get My Fix
Jean Mignon Canadian Exit
Dross Nightmare World
Punter Curfew Eternal
Factory City Children Obsessed
Romance Fast Car
Day Residue Piss Paradise
Rotary Club Planet 67
Perp Walk Susceptible Host
Closetalkers Cursed
Rat-Nip Schemer
Speed Plans Cleveland
Spread Positivity and Die The Corner Room
Geves/גבס I'm Burning\אנ
Wakas! Iseng-Iseng Pembuka
Thee Khai Aehm My Spell
Polevaulter Content
Powerplant Broodmother
Neon Kittens Bob & Terri
Salem Trials Last Days of Europa
The Drin Walk so Far
Soft Shoulder Solid Concrete Ground
Objections Better Luck Next Time
Hot Ocean Tugboat Willie
Tee Vee Repairmann Bus Stop
Ming City Rockers Desperate
Sex Drive Work
Moving Targets Decadent Side
Punter – Punter
Punter came up with an excellent demo in 2020. Their new EP on Drunken Sailor Records elevates their sound to a whole different level though, combining the strengths of "heavy" metal- and hard rock-infused garage acts á la Polute, Cheap Heat, Cement Shoes or Stiff Richards, the hard rockin' hardcore attack of, say, Cutters and Cülo, postcore of the Dollhouse, Acrylics, Flea Collar variety and all the drama, rage and melancholy of Pist Idiots, Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters.
Album-Stream →Jean Mignon – AN/AL
Garage Punk with a weird thematic fixation on mopeds and buttholes by some New York dude which sounds a lot like his city ca. '73-'77, inhabiting a sonic space somewhere inbetween the proto- and early punk of the NY Dolls, Modern Lovers and Dead Boys, with further echoes of the wider early US scene á la Pagans, Black Randy and the Metrosquad on the more relaxed side of things as well some serious early australian Saints- and Birdman energy in its wilder moments.
Album-Stream →Dross – Nightmare World
Simple and straightforward-as-fuck Garage Punk by a London group which, if you ask me, doesn't sound much like London at all, rather reminding me of a bunch of continental european acts of late like Italy's Dadar, Shitty Life and The Dirtiest, Belgium's Mitraille and Itches as well as american acts á la Sore Points, Big Baby, maybe a hint of Sick Thoughts or (early) Hank Wood & The Hammerheads.
Album-Stream →Tee Vee Repairman – What’s On TV
Not long after the recent 7" on Goodbye Boozy Records we get the first LP of Sydney's Tee Vee Repairman on that other garage punk powerhouse label Total Punk. As you might've guessed this is another juicy treat of simple and stupid melodic garage punk and power pop delight well suited for fans of shit like Bad Sports, Tommy and the Commies and Bed Wettin' Bad Boys while of the dude's own other projects, you might be most reminded of a sugar-coated version of Satanic Togas or recent R.M.F.C..
Album-Stream →Day Residue – Day Residue
More awesome shit courtesy of Painters Tapes by a Detroit group having a strong proto-grunge vibe to them that wouldn't seem out of place next to early Mudhoney, U-Men, Feedtime, X (the australian group) or 80s Scientists. Also you might find some traces of american proto noise rock á la Flipper, Broken Talent just as well as more recent groups roughly in the orbit of TVO or Vexx in there.
Album-Stream →Class – But Who’s Reading Me?
Class from Tucson, Arizona deliver their strongest release so far via the seemingly infallible Feel It Records. Their whereabouts certainly make The Resonars come to mind and indeed their mastermind Matt Rendon has been involved in the production and further similarities can be drawn in their somewhat british invasion-fueled brand of slightly psychedelic brand of garage rock, jangle- and power pop. Class, however, deal in a way more straightforward and rougher-edged garage punk sound - the overall vibe of Burning Cash wouldn't feel out of place on the recent Strange Attractor LP.
Album-Stream →Objections – BSA Day / Better Luck Next Time
A beautifully out-of-fashion 7" by a Leeds group creating a sound located amidst the rough coordinates of math rock, postcore and noise rock, obviously paying trubute primarily to the 90s-to-2000s era of Dischord Records and in particular to groups of the Jawbox, Autoclave, Hoover, Lungfish, Q and not U variety.
