Feed - Western Fun /​/​ Djinn - Relapse /​/​ Zhoop - Top Shelf

I don't think i've ever giv­en this dude from Ham­mond, In­di­ana the full spot­light he de­serves here, al­though you might've en­coun­tered his shit on some Verspan­nungskas­sette mix­tapes, where his var­i­ous al­ter egos have been a reg­u­lar oc­cur­rence in re­cent months. Now here are three of his lat­est batch­es of min­i­mal­ist hard­core punk, each of his projects sound­ing pret­ty sim­i­lar if you ac­count for some slight vari­a­tion in tem­po and in­ten­si­ty… as well as some added bot­tom-of-the-bar­rel-end elec­tron­ic reen­force­ment in the case of Feed, which should've right­ful­ly earned him the ti­tle of great­est sty­lo­phone play­er in hard­core punk by now.

Al­bum-Streams →

The Neuros - The Neuros 7"

This Mel­bourne group de­liv­ers some of the most straight-the-fuck-ahead, no-frills an­cient-school '77 style (garage-) punk imag­in­able on their de­but EP, kin­da like a way, way more tra­di­tion­al sound­ing in­car­na­tion of Amyl and the Snif­fers. The fact they're able to pull this thing off with­out sound­ing the least bit stale and dusty speaks for their chops as a band as much as the raw strength of their songcraft.

Exwhite - Estray

Estray re­leas­es April 9th via Tur­bo Dis­cos.

Rough Gutts - See the Light

Rough Gutts EP Part 1 & 2 re­leas­es June 3rd via Boss Tuneage Records.

Crime of Passing - Tender Fixation

Crime of Pass­ing re­leas­es April 22nd via Fu­ture Shock Record­ings.

Rude Television - Distractions

Hav­ing al­ready giv­en an ex­cel­lent first im­pres­sion pre­vi­ous­ly on a split tape with the great AJ Cortez, this West Palm Beach dude's fol­low-up EP main­tains the high stan­dard of his garage- and synth punk, ra­di­at­ing the quirky en­er­gy of groups such as Sa­tan­ic To­gas, Erik Ner­vous, Prison Af­fair, Mononeg­a­tives, RMFC… while al­so in­cor­po­rat­ing some '77-ish pow­er pop sen­si­bil­i­ties akin to Tom­my and the Com­mies and to­wards the end, there's al­so an in­creas­ing­ly Alien Nose­job- /​ Aus­muteants-es­que thing goin' on.

Al­bum-Stream →

Viceprez - Juger

Wow, this group from Borée, France is jug­gling a shit­load of dif­fer­ent styles with strik­ing con­fi­dence on their de­but al­bum. The thing starts out with a short, straight­for­ward, sim­ple blast of hard­core punk, then has them cy­cling through a wide ar­ray of styles in­clud­ing force­ful post­core, hard rockin' up­per-mid-tem­po garage rock/-punk, groovy an­gu­lar post punk and even some vague­ly Pix­ies-es­que, surf-in­fused old­school 80s in­die-/al­ter­na­tive rock. All of this they pull off with ease - there's not a sin­gle weak link on this record. Im­pres­sive shit all the way through!

Al­bum-Stream →

Air Vent Dweller - Air Vent Dweller

A nice lit­tle bat­tery of vague­ly egg-ish garage punk and fuzz pop com­bin­ing more re­cent weird­ness à la Print Head or Freak Genes with a good mea­sure of Des­per­ate Bi­cy­cles, some ear­ly Fly­ing Nun Records vibes - es­pe­cial­ly The Clean and The Stones - a touch of C86 pop (as in Cow­boys Aren't Re­al) or al­so: loads of ran­dom 80s cas­sette cul­ture ar­ti­facts that might or might not have cropped up on some Messthetics/​Homework/​Hyped To Death com­pi­la­tion over the years.

Al­bum-Stream →

Screensaver - Clean Current

Clean Current​/​​Repeats re­leas­es April 8th via Up­set The Rhythm.