Monda – I Always Have It ‘Til I Need It
Ponderous Leviathan releases November 22nd.
Unlettered – She Is Inside You
Five Mile Point releases November 22nd.
Lavender Jets – Finding Peace (For Now)
Junk Room Melodies releases December 13th via Just Because Records.
Rotary Club – Safety Line
Sphere Of Service releases December 13th via Iron Lung Records.
Gus Baldwin and The Sketch
The Sketch releases January 17th via Permanent Teeth Records.
Delivery – Digging The Hole
Force Majeure releases January 17th via Heavenly Recordings.
I begrudgingly give in to bluesky…
Oohkay... a (not so) quick rant and announcement. Since the death of corporate social media is taking longer than expected and the ActivityPub-powered fediverse (Mastodon, Akkoma, etc...) seems to feel too complicated (it isn't!) too anti-viral (that's a good thing) for many people and whatever other excuse you folks have for not showing up there, i'm reluctantly dipping my toes into Bluesky, although i have many reservations regarding that company so here's a quick breakdown of these:
(more…)The VanCooths – A Sunny Day With Clouds
This long-running, slow-moving dutch group, which i've previously been blissfully ignoring, catapults itself all the more impressively onto my radar with their third and hands down most accomplished LP so far which pours some top-notch songwriting abilities into a quite adaptable sonic pastiche oscillating between oldschool, sometimes psych-leaning garage- and fuzz punk, buzzsaw noise- and power pop as well as a couple of pulsing electro punk bursts. Exactly twice they stumble in my view though, by veering too heavily into kinda sugary oh-so-fucking-twee ASMR territory but hey, ten out of 12 Songs is still quite a good hit ratio and in some of the best moments, they strike me as an alternate reality garage-y version of eighties Fastbacks.
Album-Stream →Midgee & Electric Prawns 2 – Split
New shit by Midgee? Awesome, i'll have two. Wait what, it also has new tunes by Electric Prawns 2? Just shut up and take my money! Melbourne's Midgee once again prove to be a safe bet for fans of quirky synth-/garage-/eggpunk goodness in the vein of Prison Affair, Nuts, Set-Top Box or Beer. Quite a bit more ambitious and varied then are the four tunes by Moffat Beach garage sensation Electric Prawns 2, although on this one they mostly act on the sunnier side of their musical spectrum in a set of compact and catchy-as-hell smashers that exhibit many of the virtues of recent Billiam or Alien Nosejob.
Album-Stream →Piss Wizard – Piss Wizard 4
The fourth EP of Melbourne's Piss Wizard combines their least crappy production values so far with their strongest set of tunes to date in their trademark rough-as-fuck mixture of garage-flavored fuzz- and hardcore punk imbued with plenty of surf twang, rockabilly leads and noise-infested texture. That shit feels sickly, smelly, perverted and contagious in the best possible way!
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