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!
Rock & Roll Ruined My Life releases February 21st via Sweet Time.
Razorface releases Januarx 23rd via Swimming Faith Records.
Same Mistakes releases January 31st.
Heavy Möther II releases February 14th via Total Punk Records.
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
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.
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An incredible three-way split tape bringing together some groups you should definitely keep your eye on in the forseeable future. Chicago's Answering Machines start things off with a remarkable bang in the form of catchy pop tunes that seem to combine many of the most striking qualities of the late-aughts to early 2010's fuzz punk excesses by the likes of Wavves, No Age with the propulsive power pop by groups such as Bad Sports, Warm Soda, Sonic Avenues or Scupper, while the overall fuzzed-out aesthetics and production values call to mind stuff on the rougher end of that same spectrum á la Violent Change, The Wind-Ups, Famous Mammals, Honey Bucket, Germ House, Far Corners and maybe also early Chronophage.
Good Flying Birds from Indianapolis, who've also released an absolutely stunning debut tape just a day prior to this, then present three smashers occupying some of the whitespace inbetween the worlds of eighties jangle pop, C86-related pop goodness and plenty of late-eighties Sarah Records indie pop vibes. Pulling Hair is a tune for the ages i'd say.
Rounding out things is St Louis art rock outfit Soup Activists whom i've admittedly had kind of a difficult time warming up to at first and still think are best enjoyed in small doses. Well, what we get here is certainly a suitably small dose of their craft and i have to concede there probably couldn't have been a more perfect, relaxed and low-key conclusion to this amazing little cassette.
Krystian Quint may be best known in association with Detroit garage punks The Stools. On his full-band debut under the Quitters moniker however, his tunes take a way more catchy and melancholy direction, largely alternating between two distinct modes of operation, one of 'em radiating the vibes of melodic garage punk acts like Sonic Avenues, Cheap Whine, Marked Men, Bad Sports, Sweet Reaper or, most recently, Eye Ball and The Dumpies. The other one is more reminiscent of moderately emo-ish nineties indie rock á la early Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Sebadoh, Lync and Seam as far as the old guard is concerned, or of more recent stuff like Tape/Off, Treehouse and Pardoner.
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