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.
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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 →Flavour of Labour releases March 4th via Six Tonnes De Chair Records.
EP3 releases January 21st.
Headcheese Gets Abducted releases January 28th via Richter Scale Tapes.
Boucan releases February 4th via Day Off Records.
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
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.
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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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…and here's yet another short and sweet artifact of vaguely egg-related garage punk by some NJ person. This shit plays out like a mix of Alien Nosejob in HC 7" mode, S.B.F. and Connie Voltaire's hardcore-focussed projects. Also, good call transforming two slow, boring tracks into exciting, fast tracks through the wonders of cutting edge pitch adjustment technology.
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This dude from Watford, UK does a lot of things wrong here and i totally fucking love it. You know, like… squeezing 8 songs, 12 minutes of fuzzed out garage rock on a 7" and have that thing spin at 33 RPM for extra negative fidelity. Also, who needs sophistication and nuance in their music if we can simply have everything be very, very loud at all times? Why write a song using three chords if we can do it with just one? Yeah, don't expect anything too smart about this EP but the sheer shambolic intensity makes up for it perfectly. At some points this sounds like an MC5 worshipping incarnation of early The Men clashing with Destruction Unit while more recent groups like Hamer and Super-X aren't too far off either.
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A cute 'lil happy pill of an EP by some Adelaide dude, spanning a quite versatile range of garage punk made up of bits and pieces reminiscent of acts like Strange Attractor, S.B.F., Useless Eaters, R.M.F.C. as well as a very slight hint of Uranium Club… all of that gets compacted into five asskicking gems plus interludes.
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A bleak mix of post punk, death rock and anarcho punk with a generous dose of Flipper-esque dissonance is what we get on this Galesburg, Illinois project's current longplayer, charmingly crude at times and presuming a high tolerance of digital clipping on the listener's part. Otherwise this stays well inside the genre's usual parameters most of the time yet avoids becoming too repetitive and predictable. Fans of Disjoy, Padkarosda or Clock Of Time will surely get a kick out of this.
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A kickass new split EP combining the forces of two New Jersey groups i wasn't aware of before. Nylon strike all the right chords with me by way of a garage-/post punk hybrid sound roughly in the neighborhood of early Teenanger, Public Eye, Vintage Crop and Marbled Eye while Operants play things a bit more straight, first setting off a garage banger of the Ex-Cult, Civic, The Living Eyes or Sauna Youth variety, followed up by a slightly more post punk-leaning, synth-heavy track giving off a strongly muteant smell.
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Another rock solid batch of rhythmic post punk gymnastics by some usual suspects of the Berlin scene. Sound-wise it won't get more Berlin-esque than this and you also might call Liiek a bit of a one-trick pony, however, that particular trick still works admirably on me and has never been done with such precision engineering by this group before. Think of a mix between Pigeon, Diät, Negative Space, Institute and Nag, boiled down to their raw essentials. Blah blah "concise vision" or something, i guess…
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