Verspannungskassette #37 (C-60)
Black Lizard Killfire
Phaselicker Make Deaf
Telesatan I Am Weak
Academy Order Victuals
Pigeon Permanet Quest
Cult Objects Sea Foam
Soft Shoulder Old Kinds of Kicks
Ambulanz Family
O.R.C Donkey
The Black Gloves Prototemplate
Lassie Onkel Maik
Doc Flippers Terrible II
Lithics Nature Observation Poem
The Clue Panasonic
Cluttered Grotto Nasal Spray
3D & The Holograms VR Execution
Nohzdyve Sweet Dreams
Dumpster Rats Rabid
Klint Brahmsea
Snooper Town Topic
Fried E/M Lifestyle Creep
Exxxon Connoco
Android Not By Faith But By Sight
XUI Xui
S.H.I.T. The War On You
Scab Breath Give Me My Gun Back
OK Satán Looks Like Shit
Brundle Dial Tone
The Executed Shock State
Grawlixes Fatal Wanking
The Uglies Wish My Life Was Movie
Life Forms Complex
Green/Blue Away
Phaselicker – Phaselicker
From some uncertain place in Bavaria, Germany comes this beauty of an EP meddling in a fittingly nebulous, fuzz-laden genre spectrum between garage- and acid punk, psych- and space rock. A required listen for, among others, connoisseurs of noise in the vein of Destruction Unit, Osees, Super-X, Hamer, Ounce, Faux Ferocious or Draggs.
Album-Stream →Healees – Healees
I rarely get too exited about the current generation of shoegaze-related groups, who for the most part seem perfectly content with just creating a pleasant soundscape to fall asleep to and soon forget about. This Paris group, however, does not only have the sonics, but also the drive and the hooks to make it stick, finding kind of a workable middle ground between the obvious golden-era Shoegaze acts (especially a strong Bailter Space vibe going on here), some early Sarah Records pop and more recent noise pop examples of the Gold Bears, Seablite or Flyying Colours variety.
Album-Stream →Germ House – Germ House
The newest EP of Rhode Island one-man-band Germ House aka Justin Hubbard carries another strong batch of songs in their trademark juxtaposition of rustic post punk abstraction and a folky undercurrent. Especially in the first half, these songs feel a tad more developed than usual this time while still retaining their overall quirkiness and their minimalist, fragmentary charme.
Album-Stream →Pigeon – Permanent Quest / Riged
Seven more inches of undiluted greatness from Berlin post punk stalwarts Pigeon. The a-side is a turbocharged stremroller just as catchy as it’s abrasive while the b-side track goes a more cumbersome, slow and stubborn route to a no less pulverizing effect.
Pisse – Lambada
I’m sure everyone’s already taken notice, but i can’t leave that one out here, a new release by the only german punk group i’ve ever heard of. In a nutshell, Pisse are still very much Pisse (and yes, that is indeed the german word for piss), their jet of yellow liquid still being very precisely focused on the various processes and phenomena involved in the gradual crushing of the human soul in that society of ours while not sparing the punk scene their due amount of ridicule either. Their music on the fringes of post- and garage punk ain’t nothing to be embarrassed about either, even in the closing track Favorit, which drags some Suicide-esque synth minimalism through a decidedly german schlager hell.
Album-Stream →Meat Wave – Ridiculous Car
Self Improvement – Crashing
Chalk – Root By Root
Neophobia releases July 22nd via Post Present Medium.
