The Mary Veils – Bone Blossom Green
Esoteric Hex releases March 25th via PNKSLM Recordings.
Nuts – Living In A Vulgar Vision
Almost two years after an awesome demo tape, this dude from Cologne has finally unleashed upon us his full length debut and damn, is that another irresistible super-sized bucket of pure garage- and ***punk bliss roughly in the neighborhood of usual suspects like Set-Top Box, Metdog, Prison Affair, Erik Nervous or Dee Bee Rich, among many others.
Album-Stream →Final Fukker – Final Fukker
An early contender for the loudest record of 2022, this burst of maximally abrasive noise - recorded sometime in 2016 and now finally released via Runstate Tapes - truly has what it takes to startle the dead and sounds like it crawled out of a disgusting brown puddle of pure despair, its hardcore punk foundation buried deep under thick layers of white noise and feedback… but listen closely and you might also find many unexpected flashes of melody embedded deep in there.
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... two great releases by Zhoop and Glands, which - as happens quite often - fellow blog Manierenversagen beat me to the punch posting. Damn you, Manierenversagen!
Nah, just kidding, this saves me some work. So may i suggest you just visit Arne's own little media empire (always a good idea anyway, if you ask me) to listen to the good shit?
Self Improvement – Visible Damage
The debut LP of this Long Beach group, inconspicuous at first glance, evolves into a real treat for friends of smart, minimalist post punk at a closer listen. Lithics are the first comparison that springs to mind as well as post punk weirdos Patti and Minneapolis garage punk geniuses Uranium Club, while lead vocalist Jett Witchalls conjures up some serious Kim Gordon vibes here, whose 1980s output with Sonic Youth might've also served as an inspiration on downbeat tracks like Shapes, as well as some bits and pieces of 70s/80s The Fall.
Album-Stream →Print Head – In Motion
Another Print Head release means another perfect storm of weird-ass excentric, chaotic but often unexpectedly melodious garage- and post punk shit, this time around coming across like an odd mixture of contemporary groups of the vaguely egg-related variety with the sluggish grooves of the UV Race and old british Acts like Swell Maps, early Mekons.
Album-Stream →Milt – The Days Of Milt
This Melbourne group's tape delivers a whole bucketload of synth-enhanced garage punk delight hovering somewhere inbetween the reference points of Useless Eaters, Sauna Youth, Ausmuteants, Metdog… and also fairly close to the whole Warttman Inc.-affiliated clusterfuck.
Album-Stream →Slimex – Easy Money
Last year's debut tape of this Portland group was a perfectly fun little thing already but this new shit is just so much stronger in pretty much every aspect, their presentation tighter and the songs more concise, simple yet perfectly balanced and 100% efficient in their amalgamation of garage-, synth- and post punk, radiating out some serious vibes á la Research Reactor Corp., Mononegatives, Ghoulies or Warm Exit.
Album-Stream →Public Body – Reset My Password
Flavour of Labour releases March 4th via Six Tonnes De Chair Records.
Huvet – Svarta Hål
EP3 releases January 21st.
Secret Agent Headcheese – Leather Jackets Fast Bikes
Headcheese Gets Abducted releases January 28th via Richter Scale Tapes.
Boucan – French Manucure
Boucan releases February 4th via Day Off Records.
Verspannungskassette #27 (C-90)
Guitar Magazine How Do You Know
Insane Urge I Feel Fine
Landlords 1-2-X-U
AJ Cortes And The Burglars Never Ever
Research Reactor Corp What The Fuck
Kill Surf City No Chance
Paranoise Flesh Vines
Tupperware Sparse
Gorilla Knifefight Emergency Shut-Off Switch
Feed Off The Grid
Djinn Damaged
Pure Filth Give In
Fashion Change House Of Trash
Piss Kinks Light A Fire
Asesinato Manufactured Crisis
Necro Heads Positive
God Plutonium I See No
Blueprint Nail In The Coffin
Strangelight The World Needs Laughter
T.L.B.M. N A R K
Feeding Tube Stuck
Nylon Deth Metal
Glands Boring Shit
Jailer Human Momentum
Poison Ruïn Phalanx
Half Idiot My Home Town
Air Vent Dweller Heat Wave
Daughter Bat And The Lip Stings Botched Boob Job
Science Man Sharp Dressed Man
Turbogoblin RX Big-Hat
The Mute Servants Broken Ladder
Operants Grey Inbtwn
Mononegatives Vision to a Screen
Plot Reaction Formation
Toilet Rats Barricaded
Mr. Node Vaccinate Me!
Törner '86 Ent(t)törner
Mayge I Am A Failure
Fib You
Baraka Face Junta Tv Narodowa
Deadletter Pop Culture Connoisseur
Italia 90 DINO (Dangerous In Name Only)
Liiek Deep Pore
Black Mold Time To Make a Living
Los Tarzanillos Todo lo que quieras
Du-Rag Dents And Bumps
Seablite Ink Bleeds
Onan Servo We Could Build A Sun On Earth
Ingrates Don't Wanna Work
Dan Webb And The Spiders Missed Eclipse
Horsegirl Billy
Insane Urge – Insane Urge
Yet another Stucco sublabel? This cassette looks pretty much like an Impotent Fetus release to me though. Sounds like one, too! Oldschool garage punk of the KBD-infested variety and definitive must-have fodder for friends of acts such as Launcher, Liquid Assets or Freakees.
Album-Stream →Daughter Bat and the Lip Stings – More Love Songs
Sydney's Daughter Bat And The Lip Stings, who've already been making some waves with a whole shitload of fun EPs in 2020, are now returning with their strongest selection of tuneful garage punk, fuzz- and power pop smashers so far, their knack for catchy hooks provoking thoroughly flattering comparisons to the likes of Booji Boys, Radioactivity, Royal Headache or Sweet Reaper.
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