Cereal Glyphs – Shadow Slaw
Drag On Forever releases June 30th.
Spoilers – Peaches & Cream
There or Thereabouts releases August 11th via Rad Girlfriend Records.
Warp – Automatic Gratuity
Automatic Gratuity releases July 1st via Digital Regress.
Body Double – Carnation Island
Voice 2 Skull releases July 21st.
Verspannungskassette #58 (C-90)
Easy Browns Frog Bit
Dreamcast Nightmare Cat and Mouse
Money Splits I Don't Wanna Be Tiny
Billiam Kinks Panic Attack
Power Pants F.T.G
Beta Máximo. Deseos Inducidos
Todd Briefly Maps
Saucermen Blitzkrieg Cop
Cyborg 1-12 Target Earth
Klint Bacterium
Prison Affair Escríbelo con sangre
Beer Amour Fou
Vergüenza Aaa
The Stools Bad Eye Bob
Puffer Iron Hand
The Government Fight the Tide
Lysol Padded Cell
Destroy All Gondolas Death By Hamburger
Gūtara Kyō Revolving Hell
Glass Praxis Innocence
Gorilla Men We're Not Stupid
Imploders Deteriorating World
Weak Pulse Chain Jail
Kū Their Waste Can Be Of Use Here
Hot Earth Breeding Another Disease
Spider Bite Splatter Test
Mr. Shrimp Fancy Car
The Toads Nationalsville
Society Neo
Thee Khai Aehm Hall
Hellco Alarm Clock Hell
¿Watches? Oyster in a Box
Nothingheads Beam Engine
Bo Gritz Chopped
Koridor Kenotaf
Mantarochen Porzellan
Perfect Actress Dream
Tropicana Conoco
Bughunt Cleaning With Fire
Spleen Sans Espoir
Motorbike Off I Sped
Priors Separation Anxiety
The Chives Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Wastemen The Painter
The Mary Veils Nice and Easy
The Misanthropes All Is New
Th Da Freak Say Say
The Misanthropes – The Misanthropes
Brilliant new shit from folks who've previously been playing, among others, in Melbourne's infamously abrasive post punk act Sewers as well as the somewhat more accessible, indie rock-leaning outfit Love Of Diagrams. What we get here is once again pretty much off the beaten path, a heavily folk-infused melange in which the americana-drenched punk of, say, Angst collides with some 80s Scientists, a hint of british psychedelia and plenty of paisley underground jangleness - a deep melancholia, at times a little reminiscent of Brisbane's Kitchen's Floor finding its outlet in nonetheless catchy-as-fuck melodies, embedded into a kinda fuzzy, nebulous soundscape. Other times, the melodic post punk of The Estranged comes to mind or the relaxed psychedelic garage- and power pop of White Fence, The Cairo Gang. Other plausible references include more or less recent groups á la Damak, earlier Chronophage, Dead Finks, Refedex and The Molds.
Album-Stream →Motorbike – Motorbike
On this record, every new song kinda reminds me of a different bunch of groups which is great really, many of those being australian which is also rarely a bad sign! The opening track, for example contains echoes of The Estranged, Red Dons, Xetas, Civic, a touch of Saints and Birdman. True Method has the sleazy rockin' qualities of Golden Pelicans and something else i can't really put my finger on right now. Throttle has some dumb straight-ahead Feedtime energy to it and the subsequent stretch of songs then has straightforward garage punk á la Ex-Cult, Sauna Youth blending into more melodic garage and power pop shit á la Radioacticity, Bad Sports, Mind Spiders, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys. Potential to Ride shares a similar vibe with psychedelically inclined post punk acts á la Public Eye, Waste Man or Marbled Eye. Finally, the two closing tracks remind me of the simple, undiluted impact of australian powerhouses Split System, Polute, Jackson Reid Briggs and the Heaters. All of this is grounded in unfailing, confident songcraft and compacted into an incredibly tight, certified all-killer LP.
Album-Stream →Powerplant – Beautiful Boy
Grass releases July 14th via Static Shock Records & Iron Lung Records.
Tube Alloys – Computer Love Again
Magnetic Point releases sometime via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.
Bart and the Brats – Boiler
Assorted Cuts releases June 23rd via No Front Teeth Records & Big Neck Records.
Private Lives – Trust In Me
Hit Record releases July 14th via Feel It Records.
Power Pants – F.T.G
Hellco – Hellco
A simply delightful debut LP by this Philadelphia group, brought to us via local label SRA Records. I wanna describe this shit as a mixed bag in the best sense possible, an eccentric repository of slightly cowpunk-infused art punk hovering somewhere between garage- and noise-heavy hardcore shit with a certain KBD-extension somewhat reminiscent of early Electric Chair plus a touch of Soupcans on one hand, and then on the other, there are some ubiquitous echoes to be found of old acts on the intersection of '80s noise rock and proto-grunge like, say, U-Men, Scratch Acid, Volcano Suns, Butthole Surfers, Minutemen, Saccharine Trust, Feedtime and very early Meat Puppets, just to name a couple of the most obvious references.
Album-Stream →Tropicana – Eight Minutes
The debut EP of this New York group frequently conjures up a melancholy vibe not quite unlike what we've heard on the recent Shop Talk EP, backed by similarly flawless songcraft. This stuff has a more pronounced post punk feel to it though, bringing to mind - aside from the inevitable Wipers comparisons - the likes of early The Estranged, Nervosas, or Piss Test.
Album-Stream →Beer – Beer I
For our weekly dose of egg-related brainfuck, some dude or group from Charleston, South Carolina is volunteering and they've brought beer with them, nice! Though not exactly reinventing the wheel here, this is another rock solid new package of quirky funky lo-fi garage pop goodness that fans of shit á la Prison Affair, Set-Top Box, Nuts, Eugh or Pringue are guaranteed to have a massive ball with.
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