Quality hardcore shit courtesy of a Tokyo group which blends some distinctly ’90s school of post-thrash-era (not the website, haha…) hardcore riffing with a particularly japanese-sounding melange of NWOBHM-infused garage-, speed- and motörpunk… you could almost say right in time for that new Guitar Wolf record just to remind us in what corner of the world this particular sausage has been made particularly tasty and consistently for many, many years now.
Brilliant garage-/egg-/synth punk fare on this neat debut EP by some Montreal-based dude or group that i completely missed when it was first released as their contribution to Demo Fest 2025. Now here’s my second chance and damn, this is some good shit right here! The toy keyboard-meets-hammond-organ sound of the first two tracks brings me right back to some earlier days of (proto-) egg madness and particularly of those Mark Cone records from 2016/’17 respectively, while the next pair of tunes has a bit more of an electronic, industrial yet still absolutely playful feel somewhere inbetween the worlds of, say, Beef and R. Clown, before the closing track, a Violet Femmes cover tune, quite plausibly gives away one of the primary inspirations for this whole mess.
In a week not particularly lacking in way-above-average hardcore punk releases, this one takes the cake in my opinion, not that last year’s digital single Plastic Disease hadn’t warned us of what’s been coming though… This is some freewheeling, viciously creative shit reminding me of some of the most far-out acts the past two decades had to offer in the artcore, hard- and weirdcore sectors like Big Bopper, Patti, Rolex, Brandy, Mystic Inane, Beast Fiend, Cutie, Fugitive Bubble, Septic Yanks or Liquid Assets, to name just a few. I need more of that shit fast!
