Tunic – Apprehension
Quitter releases October 15th via Artoffact Records.
Imploders – Imploders
In case you like your hardcore punk wild, catchy and innocent like it’s 1981 on the US west coast… there’s your new jam as it won’t get much more 1981 than this Toronto group’s debut EP. These five ridiculously appealing tunes don’t sound anachronistic in the slightest though. Rather, with their timeless garage and KBD vibes, they fit in just as well with contemporary groups á la Launcher, Freakees, Liquid Assets or Cement Shoes.
Album-Stream →Deck In The Pit – In A Lane
Some weird-ass shit, this archival release containing the complete recordings, made in or around 2016, of a short-lived Brisbane group… and of course it doesn’t take a fucking genius to figure out this is yet another project revolving around eccentric avant-garde guitar torturer Glen Schenau of Kitchen’s floor, plus two other dudes who played in Sydney 2000 and Piss Pain respectively. It might be their involvement rendering this stuff almost approachable for a Schenau-related artifact, although by approachable i mean: No more approachable than, say, early The Fall or Membranes records are approachable. If that sounds approachable to you, then this will too!
Album-Stream →Tommy Cossack – Tommy Cossack
With this London dude’s debut tape having been such an incredibly fun ride, its follow-up – a hot mess made up of reworked/remastered/re-heated older demos and a pair of new tracks – sure feels a bit unfocused in direct comparison, yet still manages to kick plenty of ass on its own. Another adorable batch of quirky DIY garage punk that, despite its british origin, has a predominantly australian feel to it with groups like Set-Top Box, R.M.F.C. and Satanic Togas coming to mind as well as the unavoidable Ausmuteants/Alien Nosejob, a touch of Useless Eaters.
Album-Stream →Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons – Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons
A Cleveland, Ohio group presents a rough and dissonant mix of noise rock and post punk with a sharp garage edge on their first EP which, in the current music landscape, positions them roughly inbetween such Groups as The Cowboy, Spray Paint, Flat Worms and Plax, at times supplemented with a certain Flipper vibe.
Album-Stream →Dead Finks – (My Human) Extinction
The Death and Resurrection of Johnathan Cowboy releases September 24th via Erste Theke Tonträger und Urge Records.
Big Bopper – Odd Job Buddy
Antibodies – Petro State
LP 2021 will be released soon™ via Sewercide Records.
Screensaver – No Movement
Expressions Of Interest releases October 8th via Heavy Machinery & Upset The Rhythm.
Heavy Metal – V: Live At The Gas Station Fighting The Devil
I don’t think i ever gave Berlin’s mystery act Heavy Metal the full spotlight on here and in retrospect i can’t really tell if that was because Heavy Metal weren’t quite ready for me or ‘cos i wasn’t quite ready for Heavy Metal. All i can say is i’ve been monitoring their curious and prolific trajectory over the past few years and with every release their garage-/electro-/totalfuckingnuts-punk bastard concoctions resonated a bit better with my broken brain until finally they hit a prefect sweet spot with their fifth (duh…) longplayer on which they come off kinda like a more out-there version of a certain North Carolina group that’s been rumored to not be punk enough for heavy metal or something… thrown in a blender with a healthy dose of Swell Maps or Métal Urbain/Dr. Mix & The Remix. Never before have they sounded this nebulous and just wrong in all the right ways, except maybe for the idea of fighting the devil… that simply doesn’t strike me as the most heavy metal thing to do. It might please the christian rock crowd, though.
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