In the two years that have passed since Podium of Valencia, Spain gave us an excellent first impression with their debut EP, what has been a solo recording project back then has grown into a complete band line-up, restlessly bulldozing ahead with their own flavor of straight & stupid garage punk, roughly in the same orbit as Archaeas, Ex-Cult, Flat Worms and Sauna Youth, while adding to their formula some subtle overtones of noise, stoner punk, hard- & postcore.
Fun and tasteful no-frills melodic Fuzz Punk / Noise Pop from the UK, consisting mostly of crunchy noises, percussive noises and tape hiss. Regarding two of these Songs, On The House and Pedigree Chums… I've heard these before from a band/project called Crown Moulding so i assume some kind of connection here, genius pop music Sherlock that i am.
Is this really the first time i'm posting a release of this group? This is baffling to me 'cos it feels as if these guys from Kaloomps, Canada have been around forever, having first won my attention with a string of nine cassingles of steadily increasing quality, followed by a self-titled EP which for some reason didn't click with me quite as much. On their recent follow-up however, they're definitely in their zone, delivering six high-momentum bursts of vaguely KBD-ish and Wipers-esque Garage-/Post Punk, also bearing some similarity to groups like Launcher, Institute, Liquid Assets and, occationally, a hint of Crass.
A thoroughly pleasant listening experience, this debut EP by some Los Angeles group, made up of noise rock, post- and garage punk ingredients, reminding me of a slightly garage-leaning incarnation of Nag, spiked with some weirdness of the Soupcans, Stinkhole or Lumpy & The Dumpers variety. Tasty shit.
True Sons Of Thunder Killin’ It Speed Plans Brick Wall Gimmick Chalkboard MÜ Puppet Real People Psychic War / The Hollywood Gimp Septic Yanks Human Currency G.S.B. Somebody Like Me Gnarles Manson Feel Nuthin The Freakees Perfect Hair Primal Brain Primal Brain Rat-Nip Age Out Histamine Paranoid Grout Faded Metz No Ceiling Strangelight Adjustable Rate Kaleidoscope Volunteer Armies The Unfit Pills
Side B
Tracklist:
Peace De Résistance Pickin' on a Scab in L.A. Smarts Individuality Disco Junk Printer Jam Wild Joe I've Got Wild Joe Vision Milt Procrastinator Gen Pop Hanging Drum The Celetoids Light Beam Armedalite Rifles All That Makeup Dumb Punts Get Up Mr. Teenage Waste Of Time Star Party All I Really Wanna Do Wicketkeeper The Side Safety Net Johnny Wholesome Super-X Turn To Black
