Itchy & The Nits – Smelly Boys
Greetings from...releases February 6th via Anti Fade Records.
Cult Objects – Palms
Amulet releases February 12th via World Gone Mad Records.
Hot Face – Pink Liquor
Automated Response releases January 23rd.
Sweet Reaper – Sacrifice
Still Nothing releases January 16th via Alien Snatch Records.
The Bored & Ignored – Crack Killer
Dissociates – Dissociate
Hot Ocean – Whole Lotta Fuck
Verspannungskassette #103 (3x C-60)
What the fuck has been happening with Rock and Roll this month? Early December is usually the time where i'm so looking forward to post the last couple of blog-worthy releases and wrap up my blogging for the year by, like, the 15th tops. This year, music didn't quite play by that unwritten rule though and i've been really struggling to catch up with that last flood of quality releases. Well, now that the year's finally slowing down, it's also time for me to take a little winter break, but not without shitting out one last mixtape. Oh did i say one mixtape? I meant to say three mixtapes 'cos i've had enough shit lined up for that and an unusually monstrous month in music calls for unusually monstrous measures. So there you have it. Three C-60s, six sides, six quite different vibes. The last bit of 12XU for the year. We'll be back sometime in early-to-mid January.
Tracklist
Ghola Weird Scenes
Soft on Crime Relativity USA
Hyperdog The Race
Baby Muffler Ford Coupe
A.D.D. Ramone Zoomies
Krise Hohe Mauern
Botox Outrageous
Shreddy My Shadow
The Male Idiot Theory Think too much
Mr. Strong Bad Luck
Loitering TV
WWW Cerebro Podrido
Busted Head Racket Coming After Me
Meow Meow And The Smackouts Icy Red (Demo)
Telephant Sleep Deprivation
Premature Exekution Shitgun
Robbie Thunder Phone 2 Ring
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Bufflehead Ryans song
Public Error Make Me Sick
Private Function I’m This Far Away (From Being The Worst Person You’ve Ever Met) (Demo)
Liberty And Justice Oxygen Tank
Body Double Stubborn Hate
Beta Voids Nothing To Me
Family Dog Tighten Up
Centipede Turn Around and Die
Autolyse Sarcellite ( Hostile Mix )
Piss Wizard Bug Brains
Total Revolt Of All Limbs It's Coming From Inside (T.R.O.A.L.)
Youth Decline Fuckheads
Dust Collector Midori
Power Of Dusk Sloganism
Window Phase Gimme All Your Money
Corazón Sombrío Corazón Sombrío
Maximucho2 Funeral Del Medioevo
Curta'n Wall Wizard Party
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring On Islands
The Antics Ripped
The III Keep The Peace
Radar & Satellite Nurse Your Inquiry
Smashed Glass Round About
Assembly Targeted
Soft Shoulder Take The Bell Home
Omniwhores Spit
Cartoon The Big Hit
Silicone Prairie Poison Flowers
Slick Tourniquet
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Sonic Youth of Today Versos sueltos
Ruhr + Blocco Schengen Maschinen
UnPutoMuertoVivo featuring Zulo Me vale verga
Useless Eaters Dem Vex
Worker Isn't That Strange
LXRP Sapper
Catalogue Modern Dellusion
Manduria AI Hate To Think
Butter Swamp Backwater
Taze Staring At Screens
The Cult of One Sick Fuckin' the USA
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Save My Skin Living On What I Can Find
Game Set Match Play
De Porsal The Bus Was Early, I Was On Time
Jacket Burner Nekro Punx (From Outer Space)
Raw Optics Heavy Ghost
Electric Prawns 2 Mirrors
John Honda Body Battery
Shrudd Bodies
Corpus Earthling 8mm And The Dirty Basement
Creaper Hold Me Close (As I Fade Away)
Rhoads System Decay
Tracklist
Cemento Consumir preferentemente
Jumbo XL Gatto
Rehash Neu Klang Kriegslust
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice No Pigs
Outside View Fuck ICE
Billiam Eleven Cents
Eye Ball Making Babies Smile At Me
Ronny Spoiler Dart
Friends Of Cesar Romero Nine Pound Hamer®
Tee Vee Repairmann Bad News
Pic Nic Mini Malls
Vague Rituals Closer
Today's Milk Gracia
Suspectre Fight Fight Fire
Red Devil Ryders Rude Awakening
Shrudd – No Man Is Good Three Times
Over the last couple years, Shrudd of Louiseville, Kentucky consistently upped their game with each new release and yet i'm gonna say their newest one is playing in a different league altogether, such an amazing leap from anything they've done before. Where their previous work cycled through numerous subgenres but had an undeniable egg-ish quality in common especially on their most recent bunch of EPs, this one moves way beyond that with the opener M.M.I.T.L. still bearing the closest resemblance to their previous work with kind of a Ghoulies vibe before Stagnant shows the first subtle harbinger of a darker, more psychedelic-leaning overall vibe reminiscent of the likes of Useless Eaters, Pow!, Electric Prawns 2 and Mononegatives, which really kicks into gear with the slightly Powerplant-esque aura of Bodies. EMT on the other hand has quite a bit of a classic blues-y, slightly cowpunk-ish garage vibe to itself, followed by Gift where they're going into full spaced-out acid punk overdrive. And in such a vein it continues, gradually expanding their sonic color plaette with almost every new tune. So basically, here we have the newest example of a band growing the fuck up and branching out from their humble eggpunk beginnings towards new horizons, which i guess is gonna make ex-Lumpy Martin Meyer kinda happy and it makes me quite happy too cos this shit is so freakin' good!
Album-Stream →Cartoon – Theatre Of The Absoid
This Philadelphia group's 2024 Nyuck Nyuck Boing LP was among of the most unlikely stunners released that year, a weirdly anachronistic-feeling, unwieldy behemoth of a record that seemed equally heavily inspired by US post punk/-core acts like Saccharine Trust and Minutemen as by british art punk of the Swell Maps and The Pop Group strain, with further echoes of mototik kraut-y grooves, no wave atonality and '60 acid rock excesses. So here we have the successor now, on which many of these things still hold true while the band also manages to package their ecclectic influences into a somewhat more coherent-feeling and tangible package by mainly leaning into the psychedelic side of things here with a slow burn tension building throughout the first half, doing away almost completely with the previous LP's funky post punk grooves, although those do make a brief comeback too in The Big Hit, which kicks off a comparatively lighthearted and, at times, leaned-back second half - the yin and yang of a group that still won't give half a fuck about neat genre categories and our own conceptions thereof.
Album-Stream →