Metho – Metholated Spirit

Friday, August 1, 2025 | Records | Garage Punk, Hardcore Punk, Post Punk, Postcore

Tom Lyngcoln, previously probably best known for his old groups Pale Heads and The Nation Blue, really hit upon something special with his 2020 solo LP Raging Head and its larger-than-life dramas combining oldschool postcore with rustic americana elements, condensed down to fit into a super-economic, minimal footprint. So now we get to witness his newest band and kind of a spiritual successor to that one-off project, featuring further familiar faces like the garage punk supreme being that is Jackson Reid Briggs (currently of Split System), Callum Foley of The Blinds, The Stevens (he also played on Raging Head) and old gun Jay Jones, who had also provided the drum recordings Raging Head was built around and who apparently has played in a shit-ton of groups all the way since the mid-’90s that i’m just a bit too young to remember. Most of all it’s still Lyngcoln’s own distinct handwriting that’s front and center here though, with the whole thing playing out like a considerably rougher spin on his solo LP, more spontaneous and immediate, compraratively messy and cluttered in a good way. There’s one other thing i’m reminded of a little here and that’s the bands of Atlanta’s Josh Feigert and particularly his more recent groups like Uniform, Glittering Insects and Mother’s Milk.