Pleaser – Plunge
Pleaser releases September 8th via Part Time Records.
Flat Worms – Time Warp In Exile
Witness Marks releases September 22nd via Drag City.
Alamoans – Licking The Boot
Alamoans releases September 1st via Everyone Records.
Atol Atol Atol – Koniec sosu tysiąca wysp
This thing isn't exactly new at this point, having been self-released last fall on their bandcamp page. It took a cassette edition via Leipzig label U-Bac for me to actually realize its qualities though, which are really no surprise with hindsight as there are folks from polish post-/art-/math punk powerhouses Ukryte Zalety Systemu and Kurws at work here. This promises some smart and beautifully structured chaos and on this record, it comes in droves, calling to mind, along with the aforementioned groups, the occasional flash of Spray Paint or Lithics and even some Faraquet and Swell Maps to boot!
Album-Stream →Metal Guru – Metal Guru
Their recent split tape with Dadgad was plenty of fun already and their newest EP, marking the Roman group's (formerly known as the garage one-man-band Mustard) debut as a full band lineup, dials up the goodness to ridiculous levels with an overall vibe that you might compare to the best moments of fairly melodic garage punk acts á la Liquids, Booji Boys or Erik Nervous, with some added psychedelic/british invasion Vibe akin to, say, the Resonars in the closing track Samurai.
IZM – IZM
The LA group's second EP via Popular Affliction Records considerably ups their game with a strong bundle of new tunes while staying largely true to their previous sound, applying a curious synthpunk spin to a rough style of garage punk not dissimilar to the likes of Freakees, Launcher, Liposuction and Liquid Assets.
Album-Stream →Silicone Prairie – Serpent In The Grass
Vol. II releases July 28th via Feel It Records..
Facet – Yoga
Facet releases August 11th via Hex Records.
The Hazmats – Skewed View
Skewed View releases July 14th via Static Shock Records.
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.
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