Lash – Second Time
Off The Leash Demos releases July 22nd via Gob Nation.
D. Sablu – Socialized (For Your Love)
Yacht Fire – Nod
Rata Negra – Hawai
Media Puzzle – Bundy Vision
Verspannungskassette #74 (C-60)
Tracklist
Darius Denominator Spectral Youth
Les Robots Robo Diddley
Power Pants Can’t Afford That
Wayne Pain and the Shit Stains Baby , I Hate You
Civil War I Want Like A Superpunk
The MFC Piss On A Tesla
Glitterfast Glitterfast
Meng Zhu Meng I Hate Schoolpunk
Stray Dogs To Good Homes Intruder
Deebeat Ramone Marked
Pipi 1,1,1,1!
Røntgen Dicke Luft
Returners Queen Of Dirt
Busted Head Racket & Billiam Have A Panic Attack
Psychic Pigs Masochist
Amex Mememe
Big Bopper Skynet Blues
Lamictal Nothing New
Ideal Victim Eraser
Terror Advocate Sick Of It
The Cosmosians Liquify Me
Tracklist
Sexfaces S.C.U.M
Good Ramen Puberty Bruise
Science Man Puzzle Hoax
Clamm Bear The Brunt
Rhoads No Justice
SIKM Pocket Theft
Eye Ball All Dogs Look Like They’re Smiling When They’re Pissed
Shooting Losers Coming To You
Jah Hell Descend
Reckless Randy New Boots
The Slads Funny Kids
Patient Zero Yeux Fermés
Pleaser Ride
Jolana Star Combat Zone (Left For Dead)
Eye Ball – Gull Songs
Toronto group Eye Ball had made myself – and probably everyone else listening – hungry for more of their shit with their two digital 2-track singles last year, which then got compiled into a four-track tape pretty soon after that. Now we get their first full LP worth of material and the previous comparisons to the likes of Marked Men, Radioactivity, Sonic Avenues and maybe early Sweet Reaper still hold mostly true, but there’s so much more going on here too with most of these tunes having a lot more grit and a rougher edge to them, a more determined attack. Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of hooks and melodies to go around and the thing is packed with hits, but you know something’s cooking when right out of the gate the album greets us with a pretty hardcore-ish title tune and subsequently, sometimes seems to channel the the vigorous thrust of previous-decade garage punk acts like Sauna Youth and early Tyvek. The one-two punch consisting of Road Pig and Bruise for a Birthmark almost has a bit of a Cruelster-esque energy and of even more recent stuff, these sogs had me thinking of The Dumpies a lot. Quality shit, no doubt!
Album-Stream →Pleaser – Begging Guitars
This Copenhagen-based group once again channels that same widescreen thrill and excitement that already made their 2023 debut LP stand out from the great bulk of ambitious post punk acts and all of it is still in place here – the desperate, existential drama reminiscent of early Iceage, Lower and other groups that cropped up in their wake, the omnipresent cowpunk undercurrents, the equally melodic and elaborate arrangements and structures that call to mind the first couple of Protomartyr EPs, coupled with the urgency and immediacy of early White Lung – while at the same time, these tunes come across as ever-so-slightly more streamlined, refined in a careful, gradual way resulting in yet another quite unique and miles-above-average punk record.
Album-Stream →Shooting Losers – It’s All Been Such A Drag
Last December’s Debut EP Shoot Me I’m Plain of this Chico, California group was such a thorougly pleasant surprise coming pretty much out of nowhere and i actually have absolutely nothing new to say now about their first full length record which has just dropped. Once again, this is an insanely appealing and more than just competent variant of that last-decade schtick made up of elements of super-catchy fuzz punk, noise pop and psychedelic surf vibes. A sound that’s become a bit scarce in more recent years but keeps cropping up every now and then in the most unlikely places, like stubborn weeds proving themselves hard to root out entirely by an unsympathetic zeitgeist. Think early Wavves, Male Bonding, No Age, early Terry Malts or Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! in addition to such surfboard-wielding indie- and psych rockers á la Crystal Stilts, Surfer Blood and The Fresh And Onlys. That kind of shit.
Album-Stream →Science Man – Monarch Joy
I had kind of a difficult time getting into the previous EP of Buffalo, New York punks Science Man which, with its at times kinda generic and metal-ish, mosh-y riffing, sometimes felt a bit like the the group couldn’t quite match up their great ambition with an appropriate amount of substance. Their newest LP is way more up my alley though with their mixture of noise-infused, sludgy hard- and postcore sounding quite a bit more organic and less forced, driven by inventive, catchy hooks and elaborate song structures that carry with them a sense of danger and unpredictability without ever feeling randomly thrown together. These tunes show amounts of deliberation, intent and directionality that i found missing on their last one is what i’m trying to say here.
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