Sex Mex – Electric Chair
Electric Chair releases May 13th.
Dian Lunadon – Living And Dying With You
Beyond Everything releases June 10th via In The Red Records.
Verspannungskassette #33 (C-60)
Total Sham Pools
MULNG WarMULNGer
Skinned Pig Pussy. Blow. Caffeine.
Rude Television Rat Bastard
Exwhite Loser
SOSS Ron's House
Priors Voice Of Reason
Pinch Points Capital
Snitsh Pitsh Rosie Coaster
Rouge Angerman
Max Mucus Countin' Kernels
The Gobs Mind Control
Secret Agent Headcheese The Only Good Bug (Is A Dead Bug)
Klint Monology
Toilet Rats My Bomb Shelter
Psychic Graveyard What Happens At Zero
Sex Mex Breakfast In America
VR Sex Taste Of Hate
Wasted Break You
USA Nails God Help Us If There's A War
Nape Neck Don't Know
Soft Shoulder Left Over, Table Top
Puffer Suffering
No Healer Movie Night
Rotten Mind Degenerates
Gentlemen Rogues Francy
Neutrals Gary Borthwick Says
Weak Signal Who The Hell Are You?
Exwhite – Estray
I'm kinda blown away right now by the strength of that latest EP by a group probably based somewhere around the Leipzig/Berlin/Halle axis of garage- and post punk. What we get is simply first rate melodic garage shit recorded in appropriately rough fidelity, simple and stupid, stunningly effective and completely endearing. A feast for admirers of, say, Booji Boys, Sweet Reaper, Telecult... even some hint of Radioactivity / Marked Men is evident here.
Album-Stream →Total Sham – Life as a Total Sham
Gear up for some completely unsanitized, garage-infested oldschool hardcore mayhem, just as rough as it's catchy and fun, on this EP by a Kansas City group that appears to consist of the same folks otherwise known as Dye. Fans of groups á la Fried E/m and Modern Needs are surely gonna approve of this, as will those of slightly more garage-leaning bands like Launcher, Liquid Assets or Mystic Inane.
Album-Stream →Priors – NEWNEWNEW
A yummy new EP by Montreal punks Priors delivering three new infectious smashers starting off with some garage-meets-hardcore energy akin to sped-up Useless Eaters or Mononegatives, followed by a super effective midtempo post punk stomper with a hint of Wire. The closing track, then, has a bit of a Screamers and Devo vibe to it and also bears some similarity to more recent stuff by Isotope Soap.
Steröid – S.M.O.K.E. Show
Okay, so it appears egg metal is a real thing now? Kinda makes sense if you think about it, like the cutesy, garage band-fueled lo-fi flipside to the current dungeon punk craze. This shit sounds a bit as if if a particularly lo-fi incarnation of Sheer Mag at their semi-recent hair metal pivot had kept at least a healthy minimum of self awareness.
Album-Stream →Chronophage – Black Clouds
Chronophage releases June 3rd via Bruit Direct Disques (EU) & Post Present Medium (US).
Red Gaze – Narcissistic Injury
Healing Games releases April 15th via Numavi Records.
Krause – The Stuff of Tired Eyes
The Art Of Fatigue releases May 20th via Venerate Industries.
Verspannungskassette #32 (C-60)
Dante Freakee Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Society Loser
Vision 3D St Nic
Reckless Randy Gone Stealin
Cluttered Grotto Pest
Real People Cracking Codes
Rude Television Distractions
Ädwud The Thom Yorke Remembrance Parade
The Anomalys Steppin' Out
Snooper Powerball
Air Vent Dweller Fork and Spoon
Lassie Temporary Cemetery
Cromosoma Fuera Plutón
Moplo La leí (Tu mente)
Viceprez Rice
Fuera De Sektor En La Oscuridad
Beta Maximo Hellraiser II
1-800 Mikey Pumpkin
Funny Faces Hell
Canadian Rifle Over The Brink
The Neuros Orchids On A Budget
TV Cult Hong Kong Song
Erik Nervous Leather Liquid
Joker Circus Comes to Town
Stereo Joy Catharsis
Big Bopper Missed Connections
Feed Bully Me
The Waterheads Fracking
Zhoop Cataclysmic Meltdown
Desborde Frakase
Science Man The Want
Liquids 2
Djinn Relapse
Lasso Amuo
Ceramics False Prophet
No Future Death
Glowing Orb Orb Beat
Weak Pulse Prisoners of Urges
Klonns Ghoul
The Assault MKU
Bloody Keep Max Schreck's Dead
Steröid Let's Rock, Loud Rock
Fuera De Sektor – El Mundo Sigue
Not sure where these folks are based - La Vida Es Un Mus Discos' bandcamp page mentions uruguayan bands as an inspiration so maybe that's where the good shit is happening? Their facebook profile might clarify things but these days, i'd rather stay in the dark forever than logging onto that stinking heap of crap one more time (speaking of which... C'mon fuckers, what are all of you still doing over there? Move your punk asses over to the open, independent, non-corporate fediverse! Bring your friends over too!). Well, whether that's the case or not, their style of post punk reminds me quite a bit of Barcelona punks Algara for more than just their spanish vocals, albeit with a nice melodic street punk vibe and a slight touch of The Estranged on top.
Album-Stream →Vision 3D – Hypnose
Pretty fucking amazing shit, the second long player of this group from Tournai, Belgium. Right out of the gate i'm reminded of so much good stuff both ancient and contemporary on the intersection of art-, post- and garage punk, rounded out by a distinctly dissonant no wave-ish, noise rock-y edge. Sometimes they sound a bit like as if the americana-infused post punk of Angst were to collide with the simplistic beat of Man Sized Action and a good measure of early The Fall strumminess. Other moments, i imagine to hear echos of Membranes, Gordons or Swell Maps, while you might just as well draw comparisons to more recent acts such as Honey Radar, Toe Ring, Lithics, Germ House, Shark Toys and Subtle Turnhips.
Album-Stream →Bloody Keep – Bloody Keep
Now what kind of black death is this shit supposed to be again? The Bandcamp-bred dungeon punk (micro-)genre rarely fails to amaze when its over-the-top absurdity collides with such top-notch performances and quality songcraft repeatedly. What kinda starts out like an oldschool black metal-infused bastardization of Chubby and the Gang and early Sheer Mag subsequently throws quite a bit of (neo-?)folk punk RNA into the mix, dares to build up kinda elaborate and flexible song structures while never neglecting its pop qualities, making for a both dread- and joy-inducing soundtrack for a doomed humanity on its way towards the new post-apocalyptic dark ages.
Erik Nervous – Halfass
Another release by Kalamazoo, Michigan garage punk luminary Erik Nervous is always a rusty bucket full of of pure joy to behold. Largely delivered with a borderline-hardcore energy level (halfass my ass!), this EP is without question among his most direct, compact and streamlined batches of tight-ass smashers to date. Oh, and what would an Erik Nervous release be without the promise of a yet-to-be-recorded vaporware song that might or might not crop up at some point?
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