The Serfs - Stimuli
Primal Matter releases February 25th.
Big Heet - Octogenarians
Playing The Bug releases November 19th.
Seablite - Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs / Ink Bleeds 7" releases January 1st via Emotional Response.
Strangelight - Headache Aesthetic
The World Needs Laughter releases December 10th.
Safety Net - Be With You
Art releases November 12th.
Disli - Disciplina Limitar
Garage punk from Spain that hits all the right spots dead-on and conveys exactly that kind of explosive momentum of a band hungry to play - the kind of vibe that's been a bit scarce recently, owing to obvious circumstances. To me, their sound calls to mind bits and pieces of Dadar, Sauna Youth, Ex-Cult, Constant Mongrel, Jackson Reid Briggs or Pedigree while also revealing a strong post punk vibe at times, kinda like Berlin groups such as Pigeon, Diät, Pretty Hurts crossbred with the melancholic moods of Red Dons, Telecult or Nightwatchers.
Album-Stream →Print Head - Boringboring / IDKWTFimdoing
Yay! New shit by that person or group who might or might not be based in Hicksville, NY and whose 2020 garage-/post-/eggpunk borderline-masterpiece Happyhappy made me exactly that. So now we get a new short playing Hi-Fi experience as well as some other, slightly less short and ever-so-slightly less Hi-Fi thing. Boring this certainly ain't and as for that other thing… i think i have some basic idea what they don't think they know the fuck they're doing and they're doing it just fine and it's fucking glorious and i love every fucking second of it!
Album-Stream →Silicone Values - Streaming TV / Nothing Wrong With Me
Yet another EP by Bristol's leading powerpop/postpunk manufacture holds yet another pair of irresistibly melancholic earworms. Does it still make sense to namedrop Television Personalities here or might this shit already qualify as downright, dare i say it… beatlesque?
Refedex - The Top Of Off
The debut EP by Brisbane's Refedex is a heavy steamroller of dark noise rock, sludge and post punk that's often rather slow and atmospheric without ever getting tedious or losing its irresistible groove. Although their overall vibe sounds ultra-classic to me, i'm having trouble pinpointing exactly where i've heard this kind of thing before as their sound kinda transcends the usual genre boundaries, among other things incorporating the kind of dark americana blues & country vibes you might expect from an 80's Scientists record or more recently from US post punk group Bambara, while on the more classic noise rock side of things, you might draw comparisons to contemporary Bands like Alpha Strategy, Luggage, Heads or Tropical Trash. You might also find a bit of Cows, U-men or Scratch Acid in there, each of them spun on half-speed. Whatever you wanna call it, this is first rate shit!
Album-Stream →The Monsters - Frömd vo Mir / I'm A Stranger To Me
Du Hesch Cläss, Ig Bi Träsch releases February 1st via Slovenly Recordings.
Your're Class I'm Trash releases November 12th via Slovenly Recordings.
I'm A Stranger To Me 7" is already available via Epitaph… Nah, just kidding. It's on Slovenly Recordings.
