Highly flammable shit, the debut EP of Stockholm group Wails which unleashes four perfect storms of ass-kickin' straight-ahead-rockin' garage punk while also involving some hardcore propulsion, occasional traces of sludge. I'm reminded of garage powerhouses like Ex-Cult, The Cowboy, Jackson Reid Briggs and the Heaters, Flat Worms or, more recently, Archaeas.
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Night Miasma are a group from Chemnitz, Germany featuring members of L'appel Du Vide, whith whom you're probably familiar already if you're into that kind of thing. Their debut EP doesn't stray too far from that stylistically, delivering a flavor of dark punk / deathrock-infused post punk that doesn't add anything new to the genre but gets all the basics right in these four soundly constructed songs.
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Another Impotent Fetus release, another short and sweet burst of noisy, oldschool-ish hardcore punk approaching the genre from charmingly odd angles.
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Their 2019 debut album New Freak was great fun already, but on the belgian group's newest EP all the moving parts click into each other way more tightly and effective, while their quite slick yet powerful garage punk sound has gained a bit more of a subtle post punk vibe. At various points i'm reminded of groups like (early) Teenanger, Video, Flat Worms, Sauna Youth, Ex-Cult as well as french acts Nightwatchers & Telecult.
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Another fresh new batch of hissy, distorted, melodic and simply awesome garage punk, fuzz- & noise pop bangers by this one-man project from Ely, UK.
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Man, it's been at least half a decade since i last heard of this New Orleans group. However unexpected the release of their new 7" might come, their blend of garage- & post punk, hard- & postcore certainly sounds as fresh and energetic as ever on this one, fitting in nicely with more recent groups in the vein of Launcher, Liquid Assets or Fried E/M.
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With their second longplayer, Portland punks Daydream set off eleven new blasts of carefully controlled chaos, imaginative and unpredictable as ever and with quite a bit of fine-tuning to their very own anything-goes brand of slightly garage-flavored postcore, which might draw comparisons to groups such as Kaleidoscope, Bad Breeding… even a very slight hint of Drive Like Jehu, maybe?
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Montreal group New Vogue never sounded better than on their most recent EP, whipping out infectious hooks at a dangerous pace, merging them into shiny little nuggets of garage- and synth punk with echos of Useless Eaters as well as many loosely Warttman-affiliated bands like Satanic Togas, R.M.F.C. or Set-Top Box. Nice!
Album-Stream →I've heard there are those among you who weren't entirely satisfied with the year 2020. Well, the good news is we're all gonna have just as much fun this winter. Also, some folks even managed to record some music to be released in the coming weeks. Here's a first batch of things to look forward to.
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Probably my last good deed in this super awesome year of joy and progress. You guys hang in there. Some time in early january i'll start another attempt at keeping this blog updated with at least some regularity. In the meantime, my bones need some sleep and my head a some kind of therapy. See you then!
I've included bandcamp links this time (just click on a song title). If you can afford it right now, please consider making these artists slightly less broke, okay?
Side A
Tracklist:
Jason Henn A Straighter Line (Ballad of JPHS)
The Resonars My Fog
Skink Tank Isn't It Nice?
Zoids Black Hole
Snooper Microbe
Billiam I Need A Robot
Department Technicians Online
Static Static We Are of the Night
Silicon Heartbeat Atomic Experiments For Boys
Smirk Do You?
FILI Volcom
Chronophage Talking Android
Zombeaches Kosovo
Podium Pódium
Rolltreppe Mischmaschine
Nervous Tick And The Zipper Lips The Feeling Is Alright
Sex Drive Uncontrol
Richard Rose On the Bridge
TV Freaks Souvenir
Termination Cold Dead Blood
Side B
Tracklist:
Proto Idiot That Is Not a Good Idea
The Unders Ohio!
X-Nipples Loser's Bar
S!ck Trade
Lebenden Toten Eat the Life
C-Krit The Kids Will Have Their Say Pt. II
Ond Tro Herfra/Hertil
PeZ Virtue Signals
Innuendo Finding Death
Fugitive Bubble Silver Spoon
Poison Joy Vultures
A/Lpaca Korov'ev
Cruelhouse Good Old Days
Science Man Brazilian Napkins
Crackups Trainstation
Prized Pig Mistake
Nutrition Failed Satyr
Jah Hell Losing Steam
Satanic Togas Tools For Fools
The Dirts Zero Boy
The Spits Kop Kar
The Sweatys Married To The Limelight
Erik Nervous Motivation
Civic Radiant Eye
