A nice little battery of vaguely egg-ish garage punk and fuzz pop combining more recent weirdness à la Print Head or Freak Genes with a good measure of Desperate Bicycles, some early Flying Nun Records vibes – especially The Clean and The Stones – a touch of C86 pop (as in Cowboys Aren’t Real) or also: loads of random 80s cassette culture artifacts that might or might not have cropped up on some Messthetics/Homework/Hyped To Death compilation over the years.
Far Corners Pull To One Side Patti West West Midwest Bobo C. S. S. Big Bopper Good Friends Dog Lips Stain Unknown Liberty A Field Of Vegetables Stunner Rotten Fruit Thought Control Hatelust Church Clothes No Good Deed C-Krit Negative Approach Lyrics Hippyfuckers Bad Light Animated Violence Called It Duck Everything For Everyone Hollywood Fuckheads I’m Not Afraid Of You
No Fix Hell’s on the Inside Balloon Thief My Vermin Liquid Lunch Gaslight the Landlord The Crawlies Way It Goes La Hija del Apocalipis 02:30 am Die Verlierer Die Zeit Split System Climbing Big Baby Just Suckin’ Print Head Slippin Rudix Jaulas Mustard Slippin’ and Slidin’ Marty Brass Keep it Swinging, Bob Teeth of England God Maker
Bambara Mythic Love Meat Wave Honest Living Nocturnal Prose Black Marble Grave Onlooker Glory Thee Alcoholics She’s The Man Adulkt Life Book Of Curses Metz Demolition Row Girls In Synthesis Enveloped Coins Parallèles Ne rien faire
Isotope Soap In Need Of Systematic Entropy Onyon Fell Naturell Tetnis Punch Drunk Junk Modern Cynics Stop Star Party No Excuse Ingrates Kickin’ Down The Doors! Spooky Visions The Pounding of the Nail Klint Desaster The Serfs Politics of Emptiness
With members of Vexx, Gen Pop and Sweeping Promises among them, who’d expect anything short of sheer awesomeness from this Seattle group? Sheer awesomeness is exactly what we get, of course. These eight songs are noise pop candy of the highest caliber, taking some cues out of the playbook of vaguely surf-, more or less JMC-influenced acts such as early Primitives, Joanna Gruesome, early Wavves, Male Bonding or, most recently, UV-TV, the underlying songs being strong enough to still work if you strip away the ubiquitous layer of fuzz, as they do in the gorgeous title track, a melancholy dream pop ballad.
Curious mixture of hardcore-, anarcho- and post punk on this Kingston, NY group’s debut tape, assembling a distinct style out of gritty KBD-drenched vibes à la Launcher, a hint of UK82 energy, plenty of Rudimentary Peni and the occasional bit of Crass.
