Why Bother? – Cut To Pieces
Lacerated Nights releases September 16th via Feel It Records.
Discovery – Broken Windows
Disco 45 releases September 2nd via Manic Noise Records.
Verspannungskassette #41 (C-74)
R.M.F.C. Access
DogsnotGods Dead Zone
Nightman Nightman
Platinum Crack! Go To Work
Five Bucks Back Home
Sex Mex Big Joke
Nubot555 Burning the Shell
Oyo Lamotrigina 0
Repulsion Switch Plaga
The Gobs Tuffer Than You
Coke Asian Hard On
Osees A Foul Form
Curleys We Say No
Feral Under Pressure
Repo Man I Don’t Think So
Gel Mental Static
Speck The Social
Tooth Paint Post Office
Zhoop On The Road
The Chats Out On The Street
Gluer Pumping the Iron
Clamm Care
Exwhite Victims
Erste Hilfe Backsteinhaus
Mononegatives Second Self
Freak Genes Matter Will Move
Thyroids Excessivley Impressive
Gollo Funcionario
Big Scout BLN
Lifeguard I Know I Know
Stranded (Get in the) #vanlife
Margaritas Podridas No Quiero ser Madre
Other Half Slump
Marilyn Maria Watching America
Isolation Intention
Filature Dans notre ville
Qitsch Flower Boy
Crisis Party Exist
Liquid Nails Daylight Again
TV Cult Oubliette
Clamm – Care
Clamm’s follow-up to their already strong 2020 debut Beseech Me is a massive leap forward for the melbourne group and a stunningly confident achievement. Their garage punk driven forward with unrelenting force is somewhat reminiscent of last-decade acts like Ex Cult and Sauna Youth or of more recent stuff in the vein of Flat Worms, The Cowboy or their local contemporaries Hideous Sun Demon. Apart from that, their songs often have a slight psychedelic nudge to them not unlike Destruction Unit or Hamer while, in other places, there is some dark post punk undercurrent present reminding me of Constant Mongrel or early Low Life.
Album-Stream →Isolation – Fabric Tear
A new EP by that Falmouth, UK goup consisting of most of Internal Credit’s members, including Charlie Murphy here on guitar and vocals – the dude’s also in Freak Genes and The Red Cords. Their newest EP picks up right where the last one left off, which means that once again excellent songwriting chops collide with melodic and melancholy, clearly Wipers influenced post- and garage punk which fans of Nervosas, The Estranged, Daylight Robbery, Radioactivity or Anxious Living should by no means miss out on.
Album-Stream →Nubot555 – No Way Back
More incredibly bonkers shit out of the belgian Belly Button Records orbit. What we get on this dude’s debut EP under the Nubot555 moniker (previously the culprit has been doing shit as King Dick) is some garage- and electro punk mayhem of the overwhelmingly egg-ish variety. These lo-fi gems manage to counterbalance all their quirky weirdnes with plenty of smarts and creative energy, making for an impressive debut easily standing out even in its fairly crowded genre pool. I’d say Egg Idiot have found their match here.
Album-Stream →Gluer – Gluer
On their first full length effort, this Stockholm group kicks up an excellent fuss divided into snappy to-the-point punk blasts taking place somewhere between the poles of garage punk, hard- and postcore with certain parallels to acts like Tenement Rats, Sick Thoughts and early Teenanger on the more garage-leaning side of things as well as garage-infused postcore acts such as Video, Crisis Man, Ascot Stabber, Batpiss, Flowers Of Evil.
Album-Stream →Freak Genes – Hologram
You can’t go wrong with any new release by that UK garage-/synth punk duo teaming up Proto Idiot’s Andrew Anderson with Charly Murphy of groups such as The Red Cords, Internal Credit and Isolation. After exploring a more cold, minimal synth aesthetic sound on their previous LP, this one presents them in a somewhat fuller sound and probably at their catchiest so far, channeling primarily the spirit of first-wave synth punk acts á la Primitive Calculators, Nervous Gender, Screamers, Units, Minimal Man and of course Devo (duh!), while from the current landscape, comparisons to Isotope Soap or Alien Nosejob in full-on electro mode may be drawn as well.
Album-Stream →Meat Wave – What Would You Like Me To Do
Malign Hex releases October 14 via Swami Records / Big Scary Monsters / Let’s Pretent Records.
