Patti - On The Rice Continuum
The Toothpick 3 releases March 4th via Propane Exchange.
The Toothpick 3 releases March 4th via Propane Exchange.
Beware Believers releases April 1st via Bad Vibrations Records.
Gaadge / Ex Pilots split cassette releases February 25th.
Psychic Graveyard / USA Nails split LP releases April 1st via Skin Graft Records & Box Records.
Are you aware of the demented horror that is german schlager music? 'Cos i'm not quite sure if you can comprehend this bottomless pit of pure anguish if you haven't grown up constantly tortured by its utter tastelessness, total lack of creativity and its embarrassingly self-unconscious deutsch-ness. Well unfortunately, schlager music has so far been on every single pre-owned cassette i've started stockpiling to put some Verspannung on (new ones have become quite expensive, due to supply shortages of iron oxide…). Yeah that's right, roughly from #18 till now, every tape i've repurposed has greeted me with Die Flippers or some shit, what a fucking disappointment! I wonder if with higher priced tapes (then and now), the stuff previously recorded on them will gradually get more classy? Or maybe if i go for the absolute bottom of the barrel instead, is there a chance i'd encounter something surprising, actually? Maybe even something punk-adjacent? But then again, Punks never throw shit away and also won't be able to find that old tape ever again inside their numerous piles of crap. It seems that, despite their lack of accountability in all things musical and cultural, schlager fans appear to be a lot better organized when it comes to their little caves. You know, actually selling their old shit on Ebay and all that…
How many bands can i actually squeeze on a C-60 if i really put my mind to it? Exactly fourty, it turns out! Thus, i've now cracked my previous record of thirty-eight. So this is a fast one and in turn, the next one will inevitably be a bit more sleepy. Friends of darkness and despair may have to to be patient until then, i guess.
Oh, and last but not least, there's that little detail you might've already noticed of the mixtapes sounding less shit from now on. Actually, that has been already the case since #27. Instead of the underwater gurgling sounds of yesteryear, mixtapes are gonna shine with some appropriately Mid-Fi quality again. For that to happen, Mixcloud collects a 11€ bribe from me each month. As i'm actually a poor sucker, i certainly won't object if you decide to help me foot the bill using the tipping feature.
Okay, enough of me talking shit. Now let's listen to some quality dung!
Hogar Alles ist falsch
LLGOONS Virtual World
Liquid Face Levitate
Sex Mex Skeleton
MSOL King Of The Road
Tha Spewz 4 Str 4 Stam
Lafff Box Face
Klazo Fast 'n' Loose
Connie Voltaire Liquids
Total Nada Asimilacion
Axe Rash Madonna/Whore
Soft Torture Artichoke
Tetanus Life is Pain
Quo Vadis Criminal
Auto Parasite
Lamictal Violent Convulsions
Laffer Saving Face
Piss Me Off Relief
Schizos Kill Your Town
Counter Control Consent
Futile Act! Red Alert
X-Acto Smell Like Beef
Silicone Values 1977
Aspanya Ja És Tard
Babe Ruthless Bad Seed
Μπριτζολιτσεσ Βζιν
208 That House
Split System Hit Me
Lexan Plastic Echo Chamber
Enemic Interior Enemic Interior
Bau Cancer
Catastrophic Dance Ensemble Pay Me
Secret Agent Heacheese Spoon People
Beta Máximo Soy retardado
C.E.O. Yer Not Scum I am
The Uglies 2022
Feed Criminal Damage
Toe Ring This is the End
Belly Jelly Goin Up The Country
Zoids Chernobyl
I gotta say i'm more than delighted with the versatile and smart and weird ways in which garage punk has evolved over more recent years but, you know, sometimes i'm just craving for something more oldschool and primal. Detroit duo 208's new cassette on Painters Tapes does a fabulous job scratching that particular itch, containing the raw, primitive, sweaty and drunken blues variety of garage punk, the kind you need to have a soul but no brain to appreciate. Yeah, i'm aware that the soul is a purely religious construct that has zero evidence going for it in real life. So let's say instead that you need a broken soulful brain to appreciate it, or something like that, okay?. The fidelity of this is just perfect, the kind of production where heavy clipping both digital and analog is a feature, not a bug - a fuzz-saw mangler of jams which might evoke comparisons to mostly older shit like Oblivians, Gories, Pussy Galore, Feedtime, Reatards and whatnot.
Album-Stream →Neon Lights 7" releases sometime this summer via Goodbye Boozy Records.
The spanish garage scene is full of gold lately (and speaking of el diablo… have you all heard that fabulous Hogar LP yet?) - latest piece of evidence is this nice little EP by a group from… Barcelona, i guess? At least that's one of the few words i'm able to recognise in their lyrics. They're playing a fun variety of garage punk that mostly alternates between straight and stupid '77-ish simplicity and a more contemporary, angular groove á la Uranium Club, Pinch Points.
Album-Stream →Vol. 1 releases February 18th.
Glitch releases March 25th via Slovenly Recordings.