No Museums – Folk Art
Folk Terrors or The Reversed North releases October 28th.
Meal – Serve Forever
Kill Your Boyfriend – Buster
Voodoo releases October 14th via Shyrec, Sister 9 Recordings and Little Cloud Records.
Wolfmanhattan Project – Silky Narcotic
Summer Forever And Ever releases October 14th via In The Red Recordings.
Laurel Canyon – Drop Out
Drop Out releases November 4th via Agitated Records.
Split System – Vol.1
The first full length of the Melbourne group featuring members of Stiff Richards, Speed Week and fronted by the fabulous Jackson Reid Briggs easily exceeds all expectations. Sound-wise you know what you're in for - straightforward yet elaborate garage punk from an unmistakably australian lineage, a fully matured sound being driven forth with unrelenting energy in the more simple, riff-heavy middle stretch while the oldschool songcraft on display in tunes such as It Aint You, Demolition and Time Killer is nothing short of spectacular!
Album-Stream →Egg Idiot – Help!
More insanity to make your brain hurt from that certain Leipzig garage-/synth punk outfit fucking around, as the name would suggest, only in the eggiest corners of eggdom. Full of hooks and catchy most of the time, weird as fuck all of the time. Friends of shit á la Nuts, Set-Top Box, Metdog, Nubot555 and Dee Bee Rich are gonna have another ball with this.
Album-Stream →Headcheese – Best Before 2022
This group from Kaloomps, BC, Canada delivers a joyous little ride around the weirder fringes of early-to-mid 80s hard- and postcore with some mean funky grooves thrown in as well as that certain garage punk additive and - to make the mess perfect - given a thorough KBD-style fuckover. Also not too far off from somewhat recent groups in the vein of, say, Mystic Inane or Fried E/m, among others.
Album-Stream →Die TV – Side C
Though Side B didn't click with me quite as much as his Side A debut EP, this Marmora, New Jersey dude is operating in the golden zone once again on his newest Side C with a roughly 80% hit ratio. Less goth-leaning this time, his DIY garage- and post punk miniatures come across as unpredictable as ever with echoes of stuff á la S.B.F., Set-Top Box, Stalins of Sound, Erik Nervous or The Spits scattered throughout this fun little grab bag of tunes.
Album-Stream →New Buck Biloxi – Dark Star
Cellular Automaton releases November 25th via Total Punk Records.
