Gustaf - Book
Audio Drag For Ego Slobs releases October 1st via Royal Mountain Records.
Monoburro - Discografia
Everyone keep an eye on the chilean label Instant Party. Having already caught my ears recently with the Pizza Boys tape, these folks have just unearthed another gem by a mexican group i probably wouldn't have heard of otherwise and they fucking rule! This tape compiles all four EPs they've released so far. Electrified garage- and synth punk kinda like S.B.F.-meets-The Spits, but the latter with way more robots, more cyberpunk but maybe also… mumble punk?
Album-Stream →Credit Bureau - Credit Bureau
Really quite a lot of eggy goodness/insanity goin' on this week. In an effort not to repeat myself i'll keep it short: Here's the latest Cassette from the always excellent Deluxe Bias imprint, a recording that fittingly sounds a bit over-biased. Ask your parents what that means.
Album-Stream →Μπριτζολιτσεσ - Αισχοσ Ντροπη
So the egg-plague has now arrived in Greece. Was about time, i'd say. Μπριτζολιτσεσ are a duo from Athens cooking up a mixture of garage- and synth punk that even yours truly has to classify as totally and deliciously nuts. A level of nuttyness that's roughly in the ballpark of lunatics like Skull Cult or the whole Warttman-infested Research Reactor Corp./Set-Top Box clusterfuck. Whatever undecipherable mess google translate makes of the lyrics gives me a hunch that understanding the language won't make the whole thing any saner.
Album-Stream →Spielo - Demo
So this group from Reno, Nev… aw, fuck off! My best guesses are either Leipzig or Berlin with 95% confidence. Probably not wearing cowboy hats either. The music rips though. Ultra-competent garage punk with that certain Useless Eaters, Sauna Youth or Flat Worms flavor and occasional hardcore flourishes.
Album-Stream →Choke Boy - Chalk
This group from Dortmund, Germany plays a distinctly old-fashioned style of rather straightforward, melody-driven post punk, the kind that was in fashion for a short period in the late 2000s/early 2010s, probably embodied in its purest form by The Estranged, slightly less so by Criminal Code and aspects of which have been picked up more recently by groups such as Anxious Living, VR Sex and Ufosekte. Sure, this EP is still pretty basic and, as far as this particular subgenre goes, not the epitome of originality, but then again all the basic elements fall into place just right to form a rock-solid foundation that will hopefully enable the band to expand, explore and elaborate further.
Album-Stream →Meal - Jimmy
NJ/NY Label State Champion Records has yet another quite awesome tape for us and this time it's by a group from Helsinki, Finland who deliver a fully realized sound taking cues from so much of what's good in recent years, i don't really know where to start… The EP starts out with propulsive post punk that feels like a fusion of darker sounding groups in the Rank/Xerox or Pigeon vein with artsy post- and garage punk groups like Patti, Lithics, Reality Group, Vintage Crop or Yammerer. The middle two songs then introduce a more relaxed, slightly indie rock leaning vibe á la Gotobeds, Sleepies, Tape/Off or B-Boys, with the closing track Plastic Marine feeling like the perfect symbiosis of both tendencies.
Album-Stream →Stuck - City Of Police
Content That Makes You Feel Good releases August 13th via Exploding In Sound.
Verspannungskassette #21 (C-60)
Optic Nerve - In A Fast Car Waving Goodbye
The Sydney group's latest EP seamlessly builds upon the awesomeness of their 2019 debut, setting off a perfect storm of post punk/-core that appears to draw just as much inspiration from the more odd corners of the 80's scene like Saccharine Trust, Really Red or Man Sized Action as it does from the folk- and cowpunk of Angst, with some undeniable Hot Snakes momentum on top.
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