Waste Man - Waste Man

Ap­par­ent­ly, for­mer­ly New Or­leans-based group Waste Man have re­lo­cat­ed to New York City re­cent­ly. Sound-wise though, they stay true to them­selves on their newest EP, by which i mean they stay un­pre­dictable as ever and keep the lis­ten­ers on their toes every sec­ond in their very own mix­ture on the in­ter­sec­tion of Post Punk, Post­core and slight touch­es of Amer­i­cana (the lat­ter are less ob­vi­ous here though…). Es­pe­cial­ly no­table this time is the six-minute slow-burn track White Horse that plays out kin­da like a fu­sion of ear­ly Shel­lac, Slint, Jaw­box & Fugazi.

Affordable Repayments - Can't Win For Losing Some Days

This group from Por­tar­ling­ton, Aus­tralia cre­ates a dron­ing, sprawl­ing and nonethe­less ab­solute­ly rip­ping sound­scape that com­bines the traits of such time­less greats as Wipers, 80s Son­ic Youth, U-Men or Live Skull, just as much as a fuzzy clump of AUS and NZ groups like The Gor­dons, Fun­gus Brains, X and Feed­time.

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Illiterates - No Experts

The newest EP by Pitts­burg band Il­lit­er­ates, fol­low­ing up an al­ready pret­ty fuck­ing good 2021 record, is noth­ing short de­ment­ed and fun old­school hard­core per­fec­tion, kin­da mak­ing a point of in­vent­ing noth­ing new here while nev­er drop­pig the ball for a sec­ond ei­ther - this is one tight, fun and, well… dumb as fuck blast of a record.

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Pringue - Random Punk Content Generator

More quirky garage punk in­san­i­ty from that Barcelona group who al­ready made an ex­cel­lent im­pres­sion with pre­vi­ous EP two years ago. Some­what more fo­cused and con­fi­dent sound­ing on this one, this is an­oth­er de­light­ful blast of high-per­cent­age egg-ness in a sim­i­lar vein to, say, R.M.F.C., Set-Top Box, Nuts or Spain's own won­ders of the Prison Af­fair, Fi­nale and Be­ta Max­i­mo va­ri­ety.

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Spewed Brain - International Heartthrob

Beau­ti­ful­ly sham­bol­ic chaos op­er­at­ing some­where around the weird­er fringes of hard­core and garage punk. When in hard­core mode, i'm most re­mind­ed of Cells and oth­er hard­core-lean­ing projects of Con­nie Voltaire while on the garage side of things, i'm think­ing of stuff á la Liq­uids, ear­ly Erik Ner­vous or - more re­cent­ly - Print Head and Scab Breath.

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Gee Tee - Goodnight Neanderthal

New stuff from Gee Tee or Vee or what­ev­er, this dude's shit is all good! On this LP, he's hold­ing a nice bal­ance be­tween the pow­er pop ten­den­cies of his re­cent Tee Vee Re­pair­man records and the some­what more garage-lean­ing projects of his á la Sa­tan­ic To­gas, Re­search Re­ac­tor Corp. and Set-Top Box, mak­ing for an­oth­er fine batch of fuzzed-out garage pop tunes, among them some of his most in­fec­tious ones so far, that's for sure.

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Soft Shoulder - Smile Building's Exit

Tempe, Ari­zona group Soft Shoul­der have been at it for way over a decade now and still seem as live­ly and pro­duc­tive as ever, hav­ing churned out a steady stream of sin­gles and EPs re­leased dig­i­tal­ly and as lim­it­ed lathe cuts the past year. Their newest LP presents them as fo­cused as they haven't been in a long while though, their quirky-as-fuck mix­ture of post punk and noise rock burst­ing with en­er­gy as catchy grooves some­what rem­i­nis­cent of The Fall from the late eight­ies on­ward col­lides with a de­cid­ed­ly no-wave school of noise and dis­so­nance.

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Scam Likely - Scam Likely

A duo made up of Ki­mi Recor and Vin­ny "Vaguess" Ear­ley, you can't re­al­ly over­look the sim­i­lar­i­ties to the lat­ter dude's record­ed out­put but there's al­so more go­ing on here. Start­ing off from a fa­mil­iar mix of garage- and post punk there's some clear Lithics kind of en­er­gy in some places or Welt Star, an­oth­er Ear­ley-re­lat­ed project comes to mind while songs like Star­ing at the Sun and Please 3 sound like for­got­ten Woolen Men tunes that fell through the cracks some­where and Chameleon has the vibe of a Dig­i­tal Leather deep cut from an al­ter­nate cold-wave re­al­i­ty.

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Opsec - Affordable Death

Like a smelly pud­dle of pure hard- and noisec­ore dis­gust, this neat lit­tle tape by New York group Opsec has kind of an ex­ten­sive Flip­per- and No Trend feel to it just as well as bits and pieces of more re­cent phe­nom­e­na like Soup­cans, C-Krit, Stink­hole, Cri­sis Man, Black But­ton or Mys­tic Inane.

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Moron's Morons - High-Tension Situation

New de­prav­i­ty by pol­ish garage punk's cur­rent prime movers and shak­ers Moron's Mo­rons! To put it sim­ply, this shit is fuck­ing good - a vague­ly tra­di­tion­al old­school garage good­ness most­ly rem­i­nis­cent of oth­er eu­ro­pean groups like Shit­ty Life, Dadar, Mi­traille or Gluer as well as a few US acts á la Sick Thoughts, Hank Wood & The Ham­mer­heads. Al­so plen­ty of more old­school stuff to men­tion here like Australia's over­lords Saints and Ra­dio Bird­man, clas­sic Cal­i­for­nia punk shit of the Germs, Agent Or­ange, Ado­les­cents va­ri­ety goin' on in num­bers like Psy­chosis Di­ag­no­sis and Noth­in' for You.

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