Video game themed punk is not exactly a predictor of great creativity and artistic merit but thankfully, this Fresno, California group’s second EP bucks the trend of toothless chiptune sounds and instead delivers some delicious treats of fuzzy lo-fi electro punk with plenty of bite which at different points you might find vaguely reminiscent of groups á la S.B.F., ISIS, Exit Mould, Penance Hall, Kerozine, Giorgio Murderer or that Zhoop/Djinn/etc.-dude’s more electronically leaning alter egos Nightman and Brundle.
A delightfully strange little beast, this Florida group’s second EP which kinda plays out like a mix-and-match version of early Siouxie, B-52’s and Delta Five being transformed into some kind of shambolic Urinals aesthetic while also having plenty of a contemporary eggpunk flourish to it, with another comparison coming to mind being the Lo-Fi art punk of NY group Exo.
This neat little tape by some Leicester, UK based weirdo excites with a rowdy aesthetic blown-out within an inch of its life that rapidly alternates between wonderfully shambolic hardcore parts and more garage-leaning fuzz punk sketches almost conjuring up some sort of oldschool Lumpy & The Dumpers-like quality. Music to my ears!
NRG I Love You, But / Everything’s Gone Brenda i Funky Proste życie Jazz Vost Canal Cool Whiphouse Sleep Futuro The Norm Whippets C-Thru Dadgad Pirupiru The Ghoulies Magnetic Scum WWW Odio Humanoide Gurk Uneasy Feeding Tube Fashionites
Hugayz Sweatness Raya Un despertar Wax Minds The Pain Power Pants Switchblade Spam Shine (Las Pelotas) The Pancake Haus Turn On Yr Hope Vacation Armory of Bays Proto J’étais prevenu Heather The Jerk Parasites Snow Caps Broke Bay Soup Activists Black and White Television Screens
Tracklist
Ballistix Day In Day Out Silo Kids Sick Licks Foil Null And Void Seudo Youth The Hang Up Käräjät Se on demokratiaa The Ashies Two Steps Back Ninth Circle Twisted Life, Twisted City Nukies Wish for better Smertegrænsens Toldere Arbejde Er Et Tvunget Fællesskab Cucuy Speed Of Smell Rifle Cut Me Loose Fast johnny and The Slow Burners Self Depreciation Pleasants Sick Sad Situation
Outside View Ft. Dogmagogue Culture Vs Class Macrophonics Diesel Disco Krystian Quint & The Quitters Outer Drive Dry Leaves Puing Dead Bug Landfill Yacht Fire Suffering Good Flying Birds Pulling Hair Liquids Water It Down Shooting Losers I Wanna Be A Star Answering Machines Archie’s Walk Sex Mex Slipping Away Jacked Chicks Alarmed The States Carol
Less than a week into the new year, Erste Theke Tonträger has already put out 2025’s first blockbuster release… digitally, at least. The Ghoulies from Perth, Australia are among those groups where it feels like they’ve been around for much longer than they actually were, having conquered their own little space inside the garage-/synth-/eggpunk gamut – not at all by considerably shaking up its foundations but rather by perfecting existing playbooks to their maximum sophistication and impact, plus, they always have the bewitching tunes to make it all stick. At many points, their sound is vaguely reminiscent somewhat oldschool-ish artifacts predating the whole eggpunk umbrella term á la early Ausmuteants, Quitter, Drug Sweat, while perfectly fitting in with more recent shit like Cherry Cheeks, Satanic Togas, Research Reactor Corp., Gee Tee, Kitchen People or Tommy Cossack & The Degenerators all the same.
