Milt - The Days Of Milt

This Mel­bourne group's tape de­liv­ers a whole buck­et­load of synth-en­hanced garage punk de­light hov­er­ing some­where in­be­tween the ref­er­ence points of Use­less Eaters, Sauna Youth, Aus­muteants, Met­dog… and al­so fair­ly close to the whole Warttman Inc.-affiliated clus­ter­fuck.

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Slimex - Easy Money

Last year's de­but tape of this Port­land group was a per­fect­ly fun lit­tle thing al­ready but this new shit is just so much stronger in pret­ty much every as­pect, their pre­sen­ta­tion tighter and the songs more con­cise, sim­ple yet per­fect­ly bal­anced and 100% ef­fi­cient in their amal­ga­ma­tion of garage-, synth- and post punk, ra­di­at­ing out some se­ri­ous vibes á la Re­search Re­ac­tor Corp., Mononeg­a­tives, Ghoulies or Warm Ex­it.

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Insane Urge - Insane Urge

Yet an­oth­er Stuc­co sub­la­bel? This cas­sette looks pret­ty much like an Im­po­tent Fe­tus re­lease to me though. Sounds like one, too! Old­school garage punk of the KBD-in­fest­ed va­ri­ety and de­fin­i­tive must-have fod­der for friends of acts such as Launch­er, Liq­uid As­sets or Frea­kees.

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Daughter Bat and the Lip Stings - More Love Songs

Sydney's Daugh­ter Bat And The Lip Stings, who've al­ready been mak­ing some waves with a whole shit­load of fun EPs in 2020, are now re­turn­ing with their strongest se­lec­tion of tune­ful garage punk, fuzz- and pow­er pop smash­ers so far, their knack for catchy hooks pro­vok­ing thor­ough­ly flat­ter­ing com­par­isons to the likes of Boo­ji Boys, Ra­dioac­tiv­i­ty, Roy­al Headache or Sweet Reaper.

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Feeding Tube - Demo #1

…and here's yet an­oth­er short and sweet ar­ti­fact of vague­ly egg-re­lat­ed garage punk by some NJ per­son. This shit plays out like a mix of Alien Nose­job in HC 7" mode, S.B.F. and Con­nie Voltaire's hard­core-fo­cussed projects. Al­so, good call trans­form­ing two slow, bor­ing tracks in­to ex­cit­ing, fast tracks through the won­ders of cut­ting edge pitch ad­just­ment tech­nol­o­gy.

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The Mute Servants - The Mute Servants

This dude from Wat­ford, UK does a lot of things wrong here and i to­tal­ly fuck­ing love it. You know, like… squeez­ing 8 songs, 12 min­utes of fuzzed out garage rock on a 7" and have that thing spin at 33 RPM for ex­tra neg­a­tive fi­deli­ty. Al­so, who needs so­phis­ti­ca­tion and nu­ance in their mu­sic if we can sim­ply have every­thing be very, very loud at all times? Why write a song us­ing three chords if we can do it with just one? Yeah, don't ex­pect any­thing too smart about this EP but the sheer sham­bol­ic in­ten­si­ty makes up for it per­fect­ly. At some points this sounds like an MC5 wor­ship­ping in­car­na­tion of ear­ly The Men clash­ing with De­struc­tion Unit while more re­cent groups like Hamer and Su­per-X aren't too far off ei­ther.

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Turbogoblin RX - Mammon Machine

A cute 'lil hap­py pill of an EP by some Ade­laide dude, span­ning a quite ver­sa­tile range of garage punk made up of bits and pieces rem­i­nis­cent of acts like Strange At­trac­tor, S.B.F., Use­less Eaters, R.M.F.C. as well as a very slight hint of Ura­ni­um Club… all of that gets com­pact­ed in­to five as­s­kick­ing gems plus in­ter­ludes.

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Black Mold - Landscape Of Pain

A bleak mix of post punk, death rock and an­ar­cho punk with a gen­er­ous dose of Flip­per-es­que dis­so­nance is what we get on this Gales­burg, Illi­nois project's cur­rent long­play­er, charm­ing­ly crude at times and pre­sum­ing a high tol­er­ance of dig­i­tal clip­ping on the listener's part. Oth­er­wise this stays well in­side the genre's usu­al pa­ra­me­ters most of the time yet avoids be­com­ing too repet­i­tive and pre­dictable. Fans of Dis­joy, Pad­karos­da or Clock Of Time will sure­ly get a kick out of this.

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Nylon & Operants - Split

A kick­ass new split EP com­bin­ing the forces of two New Jer­sey groups i wasn't aware of be­fore. Ny­lon strike all the right chords with me by way of a garage-/post punk hy­brid sound rough­ly in the neigh­bor­hood of ear­ly Teenanger, Pub­lic Eye, Vin­tage Crop and Mar­bled Eye while Op­er­ants play things a bit more straight, first set­ting off a garage banger of the Ex-Cult, Civic, The Liv­ing Eyes or Sauna Youth va­ri­ety, fol­lowed up by a slight­ly more post punk-lean­ing, synth-heavy track giv­ing off a strong­ly muteant smell.

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Liiek - Deep Pore

An­oth­er rock sol­id batch of rhyth­mic post punk gym­nas­tics by some usu­al sus­pects of the Berlin scene. Sound-wise it won't get more Berlin-es­que than this and you al­so might call Li­iek a bit of a one-trick pony, how­ev­er, that par­tic­u­lar trick still works ad­mirably on me and has nev­er been done with such pre­ci­sion en­gi­neer­ing by this group be­fore. Think of a mix be­tween Pi­geon, Diät, Neg­a­tive Space, In­sti­tute and Nag, boiled down to their raw es­sen­tials. Blah blah "con­cise vi­sion" or some­thing, i guess…

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