The debut LP of this Long Beach group, inconspicuous at first glance, evolves into a real treat for friends of smart, minimalist post punk at a closer listen. Lithics are the first comparison that springs to mind as well as post punk weirdos Patti and Minneapolis garage punk geniuses Uranium Club, while lead vocalist Jett Witchalls conjures up some serious Kim Gordon vibes here, whose 1980s output with Sonic Youth might’ve also served as an inspiration on downbeat tracks like Shapes, as well as some bits and pieces of 70s/80s The Fall.
Another Print Head release means another perfect storm of weird-ass excentric, chaotic but often unexpectedly melodious garage- and post punk shit, this time around coming across like an odd mixture of contemporary groups of the vaguely egg-related variety with the sluggish grooves of the UV Race and old british Acts like Swell Maps, early Mekons.
This Melbourne group’s tape delivers a whole bucketload of synth-enhanced garage punk delight hovering somewhere inbetween the reference points of Useless Eaters, Sauna Youth, Ausmuteants, Metdog… and also fairly close to the whole Warttman Inc.-affiliated clusterfuck.
Last year’s debut tape of this Portland group was a perfectly fun little thing already but this new shit is just so much stronger in pretty much every aspect, their presentation tighter and the songs more concise, simple yet perfectly balanced and 100% efficient in their amalgamation of garage-, synth- and post punk, radiating out some serious vibes á la Research Reactor Corp., Mononegatives, Ghoulies or Warm Exit.
Guitar Magazine How Do You Know Insane Urge I Feel Fine Landlords 1-2-X-U AJ Cortes And The Burglars Never Ever Research Reactor Corp What The Fuck Kill Surf City No Chance Paranoise Flesh Vines Tupperware Sparse Gorilla Knifefight Emergency Shut-Off Switch Feed Off The Grid Djinn Damaged Pure Filth Give In Fashion Change House Of Trash Piss Kinks Light A Fire Asesinato Manufactured Crisis
Necro Heads Positive God Plutonium I See No Blueprint Nail In The Coffin Strangelight The World Needs Laughter T.L.B.M. N A R K Feeding Tube Stuck Nylon Deth Metal Glands Boring Shit Jailer Human Momentum Poison Ruïn Phalanx Half Idiot My Home Town Air Vent Dweller Heat Wave Daughter Bat And The Lip Stings Botched Boob Job Science Man Sharp Dressed Man
Turbogoblin RX Big-Hat The Mute Servants Broken Ladder Operants Grey Inbtwn Mononegatives Vision to a Screen Plot Reaction Formation Toilet Rats Barricaded Mr. Node Vaccinate Me! Törner ’86 Ent(t)törner Mayge I Am A Failure Fib You Baraka Face Junta Tv Narodowa
Deadletter Pop Culture Connoisseur Italia 90 DINO (Dangerous In Name Only) Liiek Deep Pore Black Mold Time To Make a Living Los Tarzanillos Todo lo que quieras Du-Rag Dents And Bumps Seablite Ink Bleeds Onan Servo We Could Build A Sun On Earth Ingrates Don’t Wanna Work Dan Webb And The Spiders Missed Eclipse Horsegirl Billy
Yet another Stucco sublabel? This cassette looks pretty much like an Impotent Fetus release to me though. Sounds like one, too! Oldschool garage punk of the KBD-infested variety and definitive must-have fodder for friends of acts such as Launcher, Liquid Assets or Freakees.
