Poison Ruïn – Not Today, Not Tomorrow
Dungeon punk’s chief ambassadors bestow upon us the gift of three new battle cries and oh boy, are they getting more epic, determined, elaborate and ridiculous with each release… and i’m all down for it!
Mitraille – Mitraille
The Belgian garage punks’ first full length release is hands down their strongest effort so far, a bottomless well of demented fun somewhere inbetween more straightforward garage fare á la Sick Thoughts, Shitty Life, Dadar and the ever-so-slightly more eleborate/artsy Ex-Cult, Tyvek or Shark Toys variety.
Album-Stream →L’appel Du Vide – Abwärtsspirale
An excellent dispatch from the Chemnitz post punk scene mostly evoking comparisons to Berlin based acts á la Diät, Pigeon or Pretty Hurts, although you might also find some semblance of Stuttgart’s Karies in there. The clear highlights on here are the almost balladesque songs Delirium and Das Programm, reaching melodic heights akin to the very best of Sievehead, Puritans or the most recent Criminal Code LP.
Album-Stream →Beta Máximo – Spain Vice
Spanish garage poppers Beta Máximo already left a rather positive impression on me with their couple of fairly recent EPs but with this one, they’re finally nailing it if you ask me, striking a perfect balance between snappy garage punk and surf-infused power pop – kinda like a somewhat less eggy, less lo-fi incarnation of Barcelona group Prison Affair.
Album-Stream →Flexï – Nothing
The second extended play by this New York group is a new load of highly concentrated post punk bliss, sure to energize admirers of powerhouse acts such as Rank/Xerox, Marbled Eye, Nag, Negative Space, Knowso or early Institute. There also appears to be a slight noise rock edge at play here, kinda reminding me of shit like Brandy or Cutie.
Album-Stream →Fen Fen – 3 Songs
The first few noisy artifacts of this Detroit group – a kickass EP’s worth of standalone tracks unceremoniously dumped on their bandcamp page – span a gamut evoking some of the best references on the intersection of garage punk and postcore, ranging from straightforward garage R’n’R acts á la Sick Thoughts, early Video & Teenanger, to the explosive genre bastards of Crisis Man, Ascot Stabber and Flowers Of Evil, not to mention some unmistakable Hot Snakes kind of vibe all the way through.
Swordbreaker – Demo
A new entry into the young dungeon punk microgenre coming our way from medieval Utrecht. That means competent new fodder for connoisseurs of D&D-savy imagery and themes, of heavy armor and blunt weapons as well as a small but expanding roundtable of skullcrushers á la Poison Ruïn, Bloody Keep, Weenog, Steröid or whoever else has recently been busy uniting the aesthetics of garage punk with those of oldschool black- and/or super-ancient “heavy” metal.
Album-Stream →Verspannungskassette #35 (C-90)
Ghost Beef 2023
Spread Joy Spa Schedule
Scab Breath Sniffing Glue
Checkpoint Gravedigger
Lion Country Ferrari Cowboy Hat
Die TV Consonants
Sex Mex Electric Chair
Prison Affair Big Bottom Baby
Lamictal Doctor Says
Gluer I Lost…
Orrendo Subotnik Stoppa
Judy and the Jerks Buford
Zhoop TMNT
Everyone Is Alone Sometimes I Am A Field Of Beans
Remote Control Everyone Is The Same
Dogoloko Tus Amigos
Pornscars Blurring The Lines
Crisis Man Police Injustice
Cuir Prenons De La Drogue
Billiam Clive
ConSec Quit or Die
Manic Ride Never Going Back
Warthog Terrestrial Progress
Sterile Mind Turns To Ash
Diall Drought
Pyrex Touch
NoTouch How Many?
Clinic Split
Swordbreaker Furious Charge
Nervous Triggers Beach Coma
The Dangermen Wrong Train Home
Skid City Double Deuce
Big Cream Shopping List
Malflora Can
Ex Parents Disease Magnet
Bullet Brains Mr. Crucifix
Liminal The House Party
Bullshit Detector They Hate Us
Feed Caffeine Freak
Cosmit Cost of Breathing
Matty Grace I’m Sideways
Night Court Shitty Confidential
Mick Trouble A Wasted Light
Famous Logs in History All Future Luxe
Miracle Debt Lurking Toward
.avi Gafas rosas
Gyrate Over & Over
L’ appel Du Vide Delirium
TV Dust – Falling
It’s Clear releases June 24th via Mape Death Records.
