A simple as fuck garage punk attack by a swedish group delivering their septic showers with that certain added flavor of KBD-style scuzz. Another nice puddle of dirt for fans of the likes of early Sick Thoughts, Buck Biloxi, Bart and The Brats, Giorgio Murderer or Freakees to wallow in.
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Still having compared their last digital single mainly to the established Mission of Burma formula, i'll expand that assessment to a more nebulous triangle of Burma, Wipers and Sonic Youth in face of the newest tracks by the Wollongong, Australia group - an aesthetic hovering inbetween the worlds of post punk, noise rock and fuzz punk which you might as well compare to more contemporary groups like early No Age or recent italian sensation Orrendo Subotnik.
It's a new single by Melbourne supergroup Split System and i guess you all know what to expect by now - this thing delivers another two oldschool garage smashers with that decidedly australian kind of flavor to them, the kind that ain't fucking around much and cuts straight to the chase instead, in an equally simple and explosive fashion.
Living Underground releases April 28th via Iron Lung Records.
Pyrex releases May 5th via Total Punk Records.
II releases July 5th via No Coast Recordings
Indie Rock releases June 16th via Howlin Banana Records.
Daffodil releases June 2nd via Mothland.
Critical Mind Dump releases May 5th via Six Tonnes De Chair Records
Slogan Machine releases May 19th via Convulse Records.
Wrestlemania releases April 28th via Vibe/Anti-Vibe and Geertrudia.
Electric Prawns 2 Penitentiary
Power Pants Hotdog Hell
Snitsh Pitsh Motion Feast
TTT-Turbo Chain$
Dadgad Nosleep
Itchy & The Nits Crabs
C.A.T.C.H. Out Of Breath
Gurk Saliva Waterfall
Cosas Ilegales Ventanas Rotas
AdamR Weirdo
Cymatics Mission Mind Control
Parking Lot Späti
3D & The Holograms Combat Boots
Antibotox Antibotox
Snarling Dogs Enemy
Poser Control Shrek 3
Electric Chair Obsessed
Top Secret Satan Brandishing
Cutup Power Steering
Pig Earth Reprobate
Deletions Data Stream
N.E.0.N. Inc The Times Change The Problems Don't
Telegenic Pleasure Shallow Human Characteristics
Mononegatives Cro-Magnon
Spitting Image Turn Person
Romance XYZ
Borzoi Rawhide Down (Shoot The Freak Pt. 2)
Die TV Execution
Enemic Interior Les Ombres
Balloon Thief Sodium City
Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops Manic Fever
Chris Pal Rivers
Why Bother? Hawking Radiation
Metal Guru Manca L'aria
Air Vent Dweller Scrambled
Gonk In My Head
Teenage Tom Petties Posters
Coming off a series of neat EPs last year, Marmora, New Jersey garage group or, probably, solo artist Die TV returns with a new album presenting their tunes in an even more stripped-down, low-key manner at first glance, yet underneath the unassuming surface unfolds a spectacular fireworks of DIY creativity. While at some points you may still find the occasional speck of Spits or Stalins of Sound in there, Die TV's strummy, jangly blend of garage- and post punk with sprinkles of psychedelia comes into even sharper focus here, the minimalist production providing plenty of breathing room for the melancholy, sparkling guitar arrangements with more than a little hint of Desperate Bicycles in some places, Power Plant or Freak Genes in others, even a touch of Digital Leather in the muted pop vibes of Goner. Don't let first impressions fool you, this is quite potent and awesome shit from start to finish!
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A sonic experience wonderfully out of touch with the zeitgeist, crafted by some Bellingham, Washington group. Prime influence here seems to be a whole battery of early-to-mid eighties, loosely SST and Touch & Go-connected stuff - on the more strummy, folk-infused side of things admittedly, but never afraid of spontaneously morphing into short bursts of hardcore punk either. Most obvious amoung those influences would probably be shit among the lines of Angst and Meat Puppets, early Dinosaur Jr. and, secondarily, U-Men, Mudhoney and 80s Scientists, some very slight hints of Dicks and Wipers. Or alternately, you might think of more recent Acts like early Milk Music, Dharma Dogs, Chronophage and Damak.
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