Modecenter Grease Meal Animator Big Bopper Math Show Rearranged Face History Of Things To Come The Freakees The Middle Los Blobs Asalto Lysol C-4 Foil Rat King Kretin Bay Of Fakes Μπριτζολιτσεσ Μη (Don’t) Debt Cult Southport Sharpest Weapons D. Sablu So Sorry The Lipschitz Squabble Credit Bureau Double Wide Spielo Sparschwein Rakete Fehlstart Brüssel 2057 Monoburro Bienvenidxs a la Nueva Era Thee Hearses Space Invader Slimex Pressure C.H.I.M.P Slug
Side B
Tracklist:
Upper Wilds Love Song #5 Vacation VFTA Psychic Flowers Coming to Collect Dog Heaven Slip Away Cuello La Resi Tongues of Fire Numb Old Moon Past Lives DDR Limited Liability Choke Boy Old Block Retreaters Something Grows Here The Tubs Two Person Love
Once again stupid me was way too late noticing that a new record by Cincinnati, Ohio’s pop wizards Vacation has hit the shelves via Salinas Records, repeatedly proving their knack for crafting refined jewels of melodic noise at the intersection of oldschool nineties-style indie rock, graceful power- and noise pop. This shit is catchy as fuck without ever getting too formulaic or predictable. A rare breed these days and even more rarely does it ever come across as powerful and flawlessly executed as here. An album of twelve hits and zero misses as for this group, “pretty good” simply doesn’t cut it.
New shit from one of KBD-informed garage punk’s prime makers in our time, L.A.’s Freakees. Having tried on quite diverse stylistic flourishes, bits and pieces on recent EPs including pure synth-/electro punk on their previous one, they have never sounded more focused than on their newest effort and this pays off admirably as the current, pretty synth-heavy iteration of their sound totally slaps and might be compared favorably to acts like early Launcher, Alien Nosejob, Research Reactor Corp., Liquid Assets and Satanic Togas.
Garage punk made by a group from Stuttgart, Germany which, despite its german lyrics, thankfully doesn’t sound all that german. Rather i’d compare them to recent groups of the more or less KBD-influenced breed like Liquid Assets and Freakees. Further parallels might be drawn to Erik Nervous, Useless Eaters or Sauna Youth. A fine selection, that is.
