Salt Lake City, Utah group Gonk have been raising eyebrows on the periphery of the eggpunk wave for a good while now and their full length debut gives plenty of evidence for them as a perfectly worthy force and addition to the scene. Although these songs don't add anything new to the game, every single one simply hits the spot and admirers of quirky, catchy artifacts by acts like Shrudd, Billiam, Music For Microwaves and Power Pants can't go wrong here.
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The third EP of this Stockholm group makes an excellent impression with its moderately eccentric and quite varied mix of garage-, post-, synth- and art punk of the somewhat Devo-ish variety that simply delivers the goods, among which is a quirky chaos akin to the likes of Skull Cult and Belly Jelly, the eighties synth punk flashbacks of more recent Isotope Soap, some psychedelia á la Mononegatives and the unpredictability of Pressure Pin. Also quite the surprise is that bonus remix of the thumping closing track Wendy Got Balls, radiating tons of a retro eighties 12" disco edit vibe.
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Our favorite garage frenchies Bart and The Brats don't ever seem to change a whole lot but so doesn't the consistently high quality of their output either. Yeah, this is exactly the simple and stupid garage punk you know and love á la Buck Bolixi, Spits, earlier Sick Thoughts, Uglies and The Dirts. I don't think i'm ever gonna grow tired of that shit.
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Horror-/dungeon-themed Garage Punk from Houston. Blown-out, smelly and abrasive, this shit strikes me as a mix of early Strange Attractor, Neo Neos, Lumpy & The Dumpers, Stinkhole and Research Reactor Corp. What the fuck's not to like about such a proposition? I'd much rather listen to that than whatever shit you're listening to.
Album-Stream →ETC releases January 24th via Quindi Records.
Splitterzelle releases January 17th via Fuzz Club Records.
Tales From The Mountain releases December 6th
With Defense releases February 7th via Trouble In Mind Records.
Trash Pickin' & Stained Pocket Tee releases November 22nd via Already Dead Tapes and Records.
Cotton Crown releases March 7th via Trouble In Mind Records.
