Verspannungskassette #31 (C-90)
Far Corners Pull To One Side
Patti West West Midwest
Bobo C. S. S.
Big Bopper Good Friends
Dog Lips Stain
Unknown Liberty A Field Of Vegetables
Stunner Rotten Fruit
Thought Control Hatelust
Church Clothes No Good Deed
C-Krit Negative Approach Lyrics
Hippyfuckers Bad Light
Animated Violence Called It
Duck Everything For Everyone
Hollywood Fuckheads I'm Not Afraid Of You
No Fix Hell's on the Inside
Balloon Thief My Vermin
Liquid Lunch Gaslight the Landlord
The Crawlies Way It Goes
La Hija del Apocalipis 02:30 am
Die Verlierer Die Zeit
Split System Climbing
Big Baby Just Suckin'
Print Head Slippin
Rudix Jaulas
Mustard Slippin' and Slidin'
Marty Brass Keep it Swinging, Bob
Teeth of England God Maker
Bambara Mythic Love
Meat Wave Honest Living
Nocturnal Prose Black Marble Grave
Onlooker Glory
Thee Alcoholics She's The Man
Adulkt Life Book Of Curses
Metz Demolition Row
Girls In Synthesis Enveloped
Coins Parallèles Ne rien faire
Isotope Soap In Need Of Systematic Entropy
Onyon Fell Naturell
Tetnis Punch Drunk Junk
Modern Cynics Stop
Star Party No Excuse
Ingrates Kickin' Down The Doors!
Spooky Visions The Pounding of the Nail
Klint Desaster
The Serfs Politics of Emptiness
Star Party – Meadow Flower
With members of Vexx, Gen Pop and Sweeping Promises among them, who’d expect anything short of sheer awesomeness from this Seattle group? Sheer awesomeness is exactly what we get, of course. These eight songs are noise pop candy of the highest caliber, taking some cues out of the playbook of vaguely surf-, more or less JMC-influenced acts such as early Primitives, Joanna Gruesome, early Wavves, Male Bonding or, most recently, UV-TV, the underlying songs being strong enough to still work if you strip away the ubiquitous layer of fuzz, as they do in the gorgeous title track, a melancholy dream pop ballad.
Album-Stream →Unknown Liberty – Chain Of Madness
Curious mixture of hardcore-, anarcho- and post punk on this Kingston, NY group’s debut tape, assembling a distinct style out of gritty KBD-drenched vibes à la Launcher, a hint of UK82 energy, plenty of Rudimentary Peni and the occasional bit of Crass.
Album-Stream →Die Verlierer – Die Verlierer
Heavily retro-leaning post punk, made in Berlin and sounding exactly like you'd come to expect by that fact. You might recognize a familiar voice grumbling about here, the dude having done a similar thing with his other band Maske, although the overall vibe here is even a notch more gritty, sometimes having a slightly Wipers-esque quality and, at other points, a touch of S.Y.P.H. as well as more recent phenomena like Aus, Hyäne, Die Wärme or Peter Muffin und die Heilsarmee. In other words: This might have come out sometime around '81 just as well. There's a couple of underwhelming filler tracks on here - forgivable and totally made up for by the undeniable highlights of this album. Just don’t try another attempt at funk next time, okay?
Album-Stream →Horsegirl – Anti-glory
Versions of Modern Performance releases June 3rd via Matador Records.
Peace De Résistance – Boston Dynamics
Bits and Pieces releases April 13th via Peace de Récords / Sorry State Records.
Sex Mex – Breakfast In America
Vol. 2 releases April 8th.
L’ appel Du Vide – Das Programm
Abwärtsspirale releases May 27th via It's Eleven Records.
Big Bopper – Good Friends
Girls In Synthesis – Enveloped
C-Krit – C-Krit
Fuck, that shit smells… but in a good way. After their mildly disturbing one-and-a-half tapes on Impotent Fetus we finally get their first “full” length cassette from Tetryon Tapes and once again this is some joy to behold. Ultra-septic hard- and noisecore vaguely reminiscent of present-day acts like Soupcans, Stinkhole or Vulture shit but also of old pioneers of the Flipper, No Trend, Broken Talent variety. There was a time when, as a kid, folks from my church told me that listening to evil rock’n’roll music might give you a demon infestation (thankfully, the fearmongering didn’t work for long…). I don’t know what listening to C-Krit is gonna leave you with but its side effects include violent sarcasm, diarrhea and not giving a shit.
Album-Stream →Split System – Split System
Here we have another kickass, kinda oldschool australian garage punk artifact conjured up by some folks who unquestionably know their craft. On vocal duties we got none other than the great Jackson Reid Briggs who, free of the temptations of guitars and pedals and shit, sounds kinda revitalized here, unleashing a more nuanced performance than what we’ve been used to, while the rest of the line-up does by no means consist of unknown faces either, boasting members of Stiff Richards and Speed Week, among others. Captivating through simple but well-balanced songcraft and an unstoppable drive, this shit sounds instantly familiar yet comes across playful and versatile enough to clearly differentiate these songs from any of the aforementioned groups.
Album-Stream →Hippyfuckers – ????
A veritable gut punch, the debut tape of this St. Louis, Missouri group. Hardcore punk with elaborate & flexible anything-goes song structures, at times catchy and melodic, in other parts showing a gloomy post punk / death rock undercurrent and also there’s some of that oh-so-fashionable (don’t get me wrong, i totally love that) garage edge to it. You might be reminded of hardcore-era Hüsker Dü at some points, as well as recent hard- and postcore stuff such as Nopes, Pink Guitars, Cement Shoes or the colorful yet nightmarish hardcore psychedelia of Murderer.
Album-Stream →Print Head – Change
A new tape by that mystery outfit (possibly) from Hicksville, NY on which they stay as unpredictable as ever, this time delivering a batch of infectious below-one-minute melodic garage smashers - high speed fuzzy power pop kinda like an alternate-reality garage incarnation of early Guided By Voices.
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