A new EP by brazilian eggpunk's prime mover Cool Sorcery aka Marcos Assis. His sound is becoming more ambitious with each new release and accordingly, the newest one is another delightful structured mess, seemingly drawing just as much unlikely inspiration from 70's hard- and progressive rock as it does from the current garage- and synthpunk scene.
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My best effort to describe this work of the devil channeled by some St. Louis, Missouri dude is this: An overabundance of stupid demented shit condensed into fun little garage tunes in the vague neighbourhood of Buck Biloxi, Strange Attractor or, alternately, Dead Moon & The Dead Milkmen, maybe with some Wild Man Fisher thrown in for good measure. I think i'm just about dumb enough to appreciate that!
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Speaking of filth, Clinic from Fresno, California dial that certain aspect even further - their latest EP feeling like one single murky puddle of primitive anger and deep despair, not entirely dissimilar in some places to the early Beast Fiend EPs.
pH People, a group of unknown origin, then slow the tempo down considerybly while by no means lacking energy - their tape on Urticaria Records is a potent mixture from the fringes of harcore punk and (proto-) noise rock with clear echoes of mostly older stuff á la Flipper, Spike In Vain, Noxious Fumes or Broken Talent.
And lastly, there's one for the dungeon dwellers among us in the form of Philadelphia's Alien Birth who deliver an oldschool metal-infested beast kinda like a mix between a more primitive Poison Ruïn and Golden Pelicans going all in on their sleaze rock leanings.
Punter releases soon™ via Drunken Sailor Records & Active Dero.
Good Boy Bad Boy releases January 13th via Drunken Sailor Records & Discos De La Muerte.
Human Coward Coyote releases January 6th via Convulse Records.
Faith in Institutions releases December 23rd via Sorry State Records.
Sangkar releases February 10th via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.
Fuck, there's been way too much awesome music lately so a C-90 wouldn't suffice and Verspannungskassette #47 has to be another double feature. Well it's almost fucking christmas time anyway so for the occasion i'm picking the finest second hand garbage tape out of my cassette dump and even pull out a NOS sealed BASF thingy… you get older, you need such luxury.
So let's get this shit over with, starting off with a special announcement courtesey of Klint that hopefully makes you wanna listen to 12XU Radio as much as 12XU Radio hopefully makes you wanna listen to Klint. All the roughest shit is on side a. For your prescribed dose of garage punk go straight to side b. Noise rock and gloomy post punk to make you wanna jump off a bridge on side c. Melodic punk and power pop to restore your sanity on side d.
Klint 12xu Radio
Drýsildjöfull Helgiathofn
Ruben Riley Not The Sharpest Tool
Rolex Hey Sunshine
Shake Chain Copy Me
Power Flower Power Flower Power
Flea Collar Buttcrack Man
Shitty Life Out Of The Scheme
Sid Eargle Chud Babies
Snorkel Half-Life
Dumb Idea D.H.Y.
Butcher's Laugh Mental Hygiene Unit
Memory Ward In Your Ear
Phantom Canker
Gamma Dressing
Z-Pak Ken Doll's Lament (Boyhood)
Exaltarist Violent Intruder
Anti-Machine Too Many Eyes
Unknown Liberty Children
Violin Betrayed
Nohz Brief Lights, Forever In Pain
Pissy Sediento
Special Branch Lethal Force
Last Quokka Eat The Rich
New Buck Biloxi Dark Star
Alien Nose Job Moldy Dough
Exwhite Excess
Crime Waves No Reason 2 Live
No Brains Certified Mullet
Hood Rats Won't Be A Victim
Thee Deluxe Faded
Spam Mi Amigx Pixel
Teo Wise Merda x3
Lymes Waiting Impatiently
Nick Normal Strange Notes
Gee Tee Find The Beat
Busted Head Racket WYL2K?
Oyo La Lefa
Captain Kazan Late 4 Work
Big Hog Coup de Gras
Red Mass Wonder Secrets Of Health And Prosperity (Ft. Slates)
Spiral Rash Autodevour
Neon Kittens Planet
Rider/Horse Great Innings
Misere Kontrolle
Dead Mammals King Pink
Trigger Cut Landlord
Can Kicker Disassociate Now
Swallow the Rat Other Rooms
Gaffer Social
Plomb Bright Life
Kitchen's Floor Thirty-Five
Zero Percent APR Midnight
Decomisos La Toledana Deprisa, Deprisa
Víctima Del Vaciamiento We Don´t Get Along
Shux (I Don't Wanna) Indoor Toilet
Delivery Good
The Chisel Keep it Schtum
Sklitakling Staten
Postage Nostalgia
Avions Fields Of Gold
Rifle Fascist Cops
Nasty Party Monochromatic TV
Finnogun's Wake Lovers All
Mess Don't Look Back
Smirk Souvenir
Great fun as always, the newest EP by Italy's Shitty Life on which they once again infuse their garage punk with tons of hardcore speed and energy (or vice versa), making for another straightforward no-frills attack that will surely please sympathizers of acts á la Crisis Man, Dadar, Gluer or Easers.
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This weeks prime exhibit unearthed from the bermuda triangle of Garage-, Synth- and Eggpunk-related dementia comes from a bunch of hungarian folks letting loose a racket that leaves nothing be desired for connoiseurs of the genre, scratching an itch similar to well known genre entities á la Ghoulies, Research Reactor Corp., Slimex, Gee Tee or Set-Top Box.
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I overlooked this this gem by South Carolina dude or band Sid Eargle the first time around so i'm glad the greek label Body Blows shoved this in my face a second time. Hidden inbetween a mess of instrumentals and interludes there's also an excellent album to be found plundering away at oldschool garage and punk history with an undeniable Dead Boys vibe, among other things.
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This neat little tape on Phoenix, Arizona label Total Peace delivers yet another burst of rough-as-fuck noise-infested hardcore punk with a weirdly melodic undercurrent to bash your head against.
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Back from the literal ashes of a certain practice space apocalypse, noise rockers Trigger Cut return as strong and vital as ever with their newest LP which sees the group increasingly carving out their own little place inside their genre while skillfully paying hommage to numerous classics all the while - think of shit like Bastro, Distorted Pony, anything Albini-related… also some real surprises here, like the opener Water Fukkery, having a melodic oldschool emo-/postcore vibe to it reminiscent of classic acts in the vicinity of Drive Like Jehu, Autoclave, Quicksand or Jawbox. Without question this is their most diverse, inventive and playful record to date.
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