Eyes Ninety - Red Steer

Science Man - Poach The Mind's Eye

Nines Mec­ca re­leas­es March 18th via Swim­ming Faith & Fer­al Kid Records.

Human Issue - Reflections

Face­less. Name­less. re­leas­es Feb­ru­ary 28th via Rad Girl­friend Records.

Dead Years - Breath of Clarity

Dead Years re­leas­es Feb­ru­ary 15th via Dirt Cult Records.

The Mary Veils - Bone Blossom Green

Es­o­teric Hex re­leas­es March 25th via PNKSLM Record­ings.

Nuts - Living In A Vulgar Vision

Al­most two years af­ter an awe­some de­mo tape, this dude from Cologne has fi­nal­ly un­leashed up­on us his full length de­but and damn, is that an­oth­er ir­re­sistible su­per-sized buck­et of pure garage- and ***punk bliss rough­ly in the neigh­bor­hood of usu­al sus­pects like Set-Top Box, Met­dog, Prison Af­fair, Erik Ner­vous or Dee Bee Rich, among many oth­ers.

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Final Fukker - Final Fukker

An ear­ly con­tender for the loud­est record of 2022, this burst of max­i­mal­ly abra­sive noise - record­ed some­time in 2016 and now fi­nal­ly re­leased via Run­state Tapes - tru­ly has what it takes to star­tle the dead and sounds like it crawled out of a dis­gust­ing brown pud­dle of pure de­spair, its hard­core punk foun­da­tion buried deep un­der thick lay­ers of white noise and feed­back… but lis­ten close­ly and you might al­so find many un­ex­pect­ed flash­es of melody em­bed­ded deep in there.

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And also there were…

… two great re­leas­es by Zhoop and Glands, which - as hap­pens quite of­ten - fel­low blog Manieren­ver­sagen beat me to the punch post­ing. Damn you, Manieren­ver­sagen!

Nah, just kid­ding, this saves me some work. So may i sug­gest you just vis­it Arne's own lit­tle me­dia em­pire (al­ways a good idea any­way, if you ask me) to lis­ten to the good shit?

Self Improvement - Visible Damage

The de­but LP of this Long Beach group, in­con­spic­u­ous at first glance, evolves in­to a re­al treat for friends of smart, min­i­mal­ist post punk at a clos­er lis­ten. Lithics are the first com­par­i­son that springs to mind as well as post punk weirdos Pat­ti and Min­neapo­lis garage punk ge­nius­es Ura­ni­um Club, while lead vo­cal­ist Jett Witchalls con­jures up some se­ri­ous Kim Gor­don vibes here, whose 1980s out­put with Son­ic Youth might've al­so served as an in­spi­ra­tion on down­beat tracks like Shapes, as well as some bits and pieces of 70s/​80s The Fall.

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Print Head - In Motion

An­oth­er Print Head re­lease means an­oth­er per­fect storm of weird-ass ex­cen­tric, chaot­ic but of­ten un­ex­pect­ed­ly melo­di­ous garage- and post punk shit, this time around com­ing across like an odd mix­ture of con­tem­po­rary groups of the vague­ly egg-re­lat­ed va­ri­ety with the slug­gish grooves of the UV Race and old british Acts like Swell Maps, ear­ly Mekons.

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