Chain Cult – We’re Not Alone
We're Not Alone 7" releases August 13th via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos
Toner – Ox ’45
White Buffalo Roam releases September 3rd via Smoking Room.
Verspannungskassette #20 (C-90)
Side A
Tracklist:
Black Pus Hey Creepers
Nusidm Controlled By A Plant
Super Cheap Busted
Night Lunch Scary Car
Meat Wave For Sale
Off Peak Arson Garbagehead
Skeleton Glove Booze Ghoul
Canal Irreal Manarchist
Psico Galera No Manifesto
DEB5000 Rats
Chain Whip Laguna Bleach
Bootlicker Hunting
Polluter Burn The Cage
CB Wife
ICD10 Hollow Words
Direct Threat Stand and Fight
Yugo Rendición
Bug Bite Free
Pisces Disaster Disaster
New Adults Neighbor
Bzdet Ziemia
Side B
Tracklist:
Astute Palate A Little Proof
Scientists Outsider
Pearie Sol Real Happiness
During Birds of Juneau
LLRR 境界
Nomos 751 To Kanoniko
Mononegatives Vision Out Scope
Rubber Room Chemical Imbalance
Shit Knife Cherry Coke Summer
Cavity Boy Josiah
Laxisme L'étau
The Gobs Breaking Bottles (In The Street)
The Dirtiest Robot
Lids Furniture
Pigeon Refuse To Obey
Cemento No Ambition
Fake Nudes Cinnamon Jade / Better Billy Joel
Sweet Teeth Acid Rain
Skeleton Glove – Skeleton Glove
Berlin group Skeleton Glove have already put out a bunch of demos, all of which suffered to a varying extent from their Lo-Fi production values, so it's nice to finally hear them in a sound that does their sheer sonic force justice. The result is every bit as good as i could've hoped for, their ultra-primal brand of post- and hardcore punk with flourishes of death rock and garage never failing to hit where it hurts the most.
Album-Stream →LLRR – < = >
This EP by Kyoto group LLRR is a real treat! Post punk that's simultaneously catchy and abrasive, often danceable, sometimes leaning towards math rock structures and oldschool no-wave-funky in other places. A rock-solid rhythm section creates the ideal space for guitarist Yuzuru Sano's unruly yet often quite melodic eruptions of noise to unfold as well as the hypnotic chants by vocalist Minami Yokota, the latter being interwoven into the rhythmic foundation to a degree seldem heard from contemporary groups.
Album-Stream →Super Cheap – Volume II
Gotta tell you about this Super Cheap EP i got super cheap from Painters Tapes! It's a weird little lump of blown-out noise - it's fast and wild, it's pleasantly short. Kinda like a mix between Soupcans, Lumpy and the Dumpers, Stinkhole and Connie Voltaire's more hardcore-centric projects.
Album-Stream →Off Peak Arson – Off Peak Arson
Whoa, what an excellent debut EP by a Memphis, Tennessee group! The opener plays out kinda like Drive Like Jehu or Hot Snakes in creative overdrive mode, also being somewhat reminiscent of contemporary bands like Meat Wave, Mystic Inane, Tunic or Wymyns Prysyn. Next they change gear entirely and come up with a mid-tempo post punk tune in which a pulsing beat collides with some serious Flying Nun-style psychedelia and a certain Sauna Youth vibe. The latter also permeates the subsequent two garage punk smashers with echoes of Ex-Cult, early Teenanger or Dumb Punts, gradually shapeshifting into more of a post punk and indie rock style not unlike Gotobeds, Sleepies or B-Boys, which in the closing track once again morphs into kind of a Swervedriver-esque slow jam. There's not a single weak spot to be found on this record!
Album-Stream →Bootlicker – Bootlicker
Having released four EPs on Neon Taste so far, Vancouver's Bootlicker have hit the bull's eye every single time, so why change anything now? They haven't. Accordingly, on their first longplayer, their brand of no-frills oldschool hardcore attack once more manages to be mostly unsurprising yet perfectly gripping from start to finish.
Album-Stream →XUXWXUX – Lamborghini Transformer Wet Dream and #3 Together
XUXWXUX releases July 16th via Already Dead Tapes and Records.
Soft Shoulder – In With The New
Formerly On Fluorescent Paper releases July 9th via Gilgongo Records.
The Wind-Ups – Drinking Bleach
Try Not To Think releases July 14th via Mt. St. Mtn. Records.
Puritans – Sacred Cow
Puritans releases July 8th.
Direct Threat – Confined
Direct Threat releases June 30th via Iron Lung Records.
Laughing Gear – Private Sector
Freak Lemons releases July 21st via Heavy Machinery Records.
