Puppy And The Handjobs – I Don’t Care About Anything
I Don’t Care About Anything releases May 2nd via Slovenly Recordings,
Lifeguard – It Will Get Worse
Ripped and Torn releases June 6th via Matador Records.
Blowers – Tony’s In Hospital Again
Blowmania releases April 28th via Chaputa Records (EU) & Trash Cult Records (AUS).
Technopolice – Hellastic Mr. Pox
Slippers – Guess I Started A Band
Snarewaves – Fashionista
Gerber and the Babies – Gerber and the Babies
Another kickass Painter’s Tape by yet another Detroit garage group excelling in a moderately egg-ish take on more-or-less contemporary Garage- and Synth Punk that, once you made it past the cheesy intro, doesn’t sound very cute at all and much darker than expected with a distinct post punk-ish feel to tracks like Paranoia and quite a bit of stylistic freedom and flexibility reminding me at different points of such groups as S.B.F., Ghoulies, Spits, Stalins Of Sound, Kid Chrome, Lost Sounds, Mind Spiders, Sex Mex, Exit Mould, The Gobs, Broken Prayer and Kerozine.
Album-Stream →Mr. Piss – Mr. Piss
A worthy addition to the see/saw-sourced piss bands spreadsheet comes from some Raleigh, North Carolina dude or band creating a fun mix of noise rock and garage punk with hammering Big Black-esque drum machine beats, although i’m gonna say that despite some decidedly Albini-esque guitar noises being contained in here aswell, the overall vibe reminds me more of London’s World Domination Enterprises and, to a lesser extent, their fellow brits The Membranes who also had a quite Big Black-ish phase in the late eighties, while the most garage-leaning tracks like Meat Tenderizer evoke the way more stripped-down, minimalistic prototypes of Métal Urbain / Dr. Mix And The Remix with further possible references being the likes Scratch Acid and Brainiac. So yeah, this is good shit!
Album-Stream →Dad Joke – How Many Songs Can You Handle This Night
These croatian punks didn’t take long to completely win me over with their joyous and odd garage punk mixture of cowpunk-y X (US) and Gun Club vibes, Angst-ish folk punk sprinkles and tons of early Minutemen-esque, freewheeling anything-goes funky post punk weirdnes that also calls to mind a wild bunch of contemporary acts like Ismatic Guru, Patti, Tyvek, Print Head and Shark Toys, while the the sort-of-theme-tune Dad Joke almost feels like an authentic throwback to old DIY brits á la Mekons, Television Personalities and Desperate Bicycles.
Album-Stream →Negative Outlook – Negative Outlook
Oooh-kay, so this is supposed to be the new project of some old british-american punk geezer but to be perfectly honest, i’m fairly positive that you can’t take anything of what’s written on their bandcamp page at face value. Anyway, this is some ripping shit. It’s a noisy, fuzzed out explosive concoction of garage- and post punk with just a smidge of ’90s indie rock and old britisch DIY thrown in for good measure. Devotees of actually not-that-old groups á la Shark Toys, Tyvek, Parquet Courts and earlier Cloud Nothings are gonna approve of this.
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