Hotmom – Crutch
Stupid Vegan Band releases January 24th.
Set-Top Box – Normal Guy
Set-Top Box / R.M.F.C. Split 7" releases January 24th via Goodbye Boozy Records.
Neighbours Burning Neighbours – Grace
Softly / Grace 7" releases January 23rd via Subroutine Records.
Pop Crimes – Goes
Debuts releases January 17th via Howlin Banana Records.
Alien Nosejob – Television Sets
Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud releases January 17th via Drunken Sailor Records.
Chubby and The Gang – Speed Kills
Speed Kills releases January 16th via Static Shock Records.
Shopvac – Fugue State
EP1, out January 10th via Bust Never Sleeps.
Acid & Eltern – Demo
In recent years, Cologne has developed quite an impressive track record of folks putting on DIY garage shows, thus i always wondered why i didn't get to hear much in terms of local bands, even less in terms of recorded material. However... Acid & Eltern are indeed a band from Cologne and their first demo makes for a thoroughly pleasing listen. Recorded in raw and fuzzy mono, I'd locate their sound - among others - roughly in the realm of Ex-Cult, Useless Eaters and the muddy LoFi-Aesthetics of early Erik Nervous.
Album-Stream →Discovery – Demo
California's Discovery deliver another two short but potent blasts of this particular fusion between blown out fuzzy hardcore & garage stuff that, in recent years, seems to be cropping up from every crack in the asphalt, a fact i couldn't be more happy about.
Rancher – Pummeler
What we got here is twelve minutes worth of minimalistic, uncompromising DIY industrial noise/-punk shit by some duo from River Falls, Wisconsin. Being more of a clueless idiot tourist in this particular field, i'd describe this as what a fully electronic variant of Big Black might have sounded like. Or maybe draw parallels to the more recent but comparably minimalistic noise by Black Pus.
