Verspannungskassette #81 (C-90)
Tracklist
Timmy Vulgar’s Zeta Reticuli
Operants In the Hell Rock
Demolition Man Speed Camera
Mitraille Laundry Tonight
Zippo! Wisconsin
Scared Of Chaka Nobody
Itches Level 25
Love Collector Toner Loner
Gonk Big Pig
Handcuff Keep, Repeat
Exit Mould 21st Century
Satanic Togas Illusions
Deformative Straight Away
Achterlicht No Shoes
Bozo Burglar
Radar & Satellite Handshake
No Brains Sewer People
Expest Negative Asshole
Power Shovel Jackin off to moby dick
Dani Alarma! Villano Inexistente Ataca
Success Super .22
W.M.D.s Toy
Speedy Muffler Orb
Santo Blanco Abyss
DE()T It’s Going Great
Funeral Mess Isolation
Axxident Sur les pavés
Tracklist
Lohn Der Angst Exzess
Freak Genes Neoware
Burdo La Náusea
Flat Worms Letters From the Outpost
Fake Fruit Más O Menos
Cherry Cheeks Wire
The Bug Club Quality Pints
Temporary Curse Computer Hell
Beta Máximo Negativo Esperanzado
Jëg Hüsker My Dawn
Patrol Cold Blood
Fantasma Trabalho Invisível
The Hammer Party E.M.B.R.Y.O.
It Thing …In Ruins
Rehash Kunsthochschule
Licklash Party Line
Hatula Nevela No One Taught You
Fastbacks The Answer Is In Gray
Paint Fumes Crime of Love
Alien Nosejob – Turns the Colour of Bad Shit
With each new Alien Nosejob release, you never quite know what you’re gonna get. An oldschool hardcore attack? Sad-sack power pop? A straight-up Ausmuteants throwback? Relentlessly hammering industrial punk? Heavily eurotrash/italo disco-informed synth pop? A full LP of AC/DC cock rock worship? I’m just gonna say all of this, and more, has happened before with Jake Robertson’s constantly shape-shifting project. Yet, there’s always an unmistakable signature to anything the garage punk auteur does and if there is such a thing as a “classic” Alien Nosejob sound, this new record is about as close as it’s gonna get while still giving us plenty of stylistic variety molded into a super catchy set of new tunes never being let down by Robertson’s unimpeachable songwriting chops.
Album-Stream →The Carp – Knock Your Block Off
Finally, here’s the debut album of Cleveland, Ohio art punks The Carp, a group comprised of folks also connected to acts like Perverts Again, Knowso and Cruelster. With most of these songs already having made an appearance on their 2022 demo, here they’re given some final polish here with the increased production values adding plenty of punch, while their sound overall kinda bridges the gap between the sonic traits of Knowso and Cruelster, combining the elaborate yet rigid structures of the former with the straght-ahead fun and energy of the latter, with even a bit of a cowpunk vibe á la Murderer in The Old Ways.
Album-Stream →Mitraille – Mitraille
The second LP of this group from Antwerp, Belgium featuring at the very least one Member of Itches plus former members of Star Visitors and The Queefs, takes their kinda basic garage punk formula into a somewhat more eleborate and polished direction having a bit of a Vintage Crop, early Patti, Reality Group or Yammerer vibe to them, while also retaining much of the previous album’s qualities reminiscent both of euro acts like Dadar, Shitty Life and US acts of the previous decade á la Shark Toys, Ex-Cult and Tyvek. So, nothing too new or groundbreaking going on here but plenty of demented fun to be had anyway whith this collection of thoroughly competent and well-crafted garage tunes.
Album-Stream →Beef – Il Manzo
The successor to last year’s kickass second EP of this Cincinnati, Ohio group makes no attempt at fixing what ain’t broken and instead delivers four new blows of that very same awesomness incorporating elements of noise rock, post-, garage- and synth punk with various bits and pieces reminding me of the likes of Busted Head Racket, Brandy, R.Clown, ISS, Spyroids and Knowso, De()t, Toy Brigade or Nervous Tick and the Zipper Lips.
Album-Stream →Gull House – Gull House 1
Five insanely pleasing new bursts of straightforward garage punk from yet another belgian group exquisitely executing a no-frills basic strategy that combines traits of a bunch of other european acts (think of the likes of Itches, Mitraille, Dadar and Shitty Life) with a hint of nested grooves á la early Uranium Club, Dumb and Reality Group on one hand, counterbalenced by some shit reminiscent of groups located on the rougher ends of the garage punk spectrum like Easers, Crisis Man, Cruelster or Curleys.
Album-Stream →Delivery – Operating At A Loss
Force Majeure releases January 17th via Heavenly Recordings.
Tube Alloys – Evil Angels
Evil Angels releases October 4th via Urge Records and La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.
Memory Strings – Static
Static releases October 31st.
