Meat Wave – Tugboat
Volcano Park releases digitally on June 11th.
Vinyl will be available August 6th via Big Scary Monsters.
John (Timestwo) – A Song For Those Who Speed In Built-up Areas
A Song For Those Who Speed In Built-up Areas 7" releases June 25th via Brace Yourself Records & Pets Care Records.
Smirk – Staring At Screens
Smirk EP releases sometime later this year via Total Punk Records.
Supermilk – Pelican Pete
Four by Three releases July 2nd via Specialist Subject Records.
Satanic Togas – The Last Great Hope In The Fight Against Prog-Rock Nazis! / From Hell They’ve Risen, Too Rush They Listen
Satanic Togas / Zoids Split 7" releases June 11th via Goodbye Boozy.
Seurat – Maailmanloppu alkaa Oulusta
Loulou – Depend On Me
Egg Idiot – Egg Idiot
Some pathetic loser in Leipzig, Germany is playing around with bleep-emitting hardware and recording equipment, not yet fully realizing this leads to him ending up fighting the good battle at the forefront of the egghead revolution. This record is a fucking masterpiece you need to have in your life. Having only listened to it once, i already feel a lot smarter, more balanced - full enlightenment only inches away. Almost being a wise old man myself, i can't stress enough how fucking proud i am of this little shit.
Album-Stream →Maske – Tape 2
The Berlin scene, where every musician is also secretly playing in all your other favorite groups, has dropped another pile of something. That something starts out kinda like S.Y.P.H. filtered through Wire and Crass, subsequently touching on Weirdcore stuff á la Stinkhole, Stuttgart-style-post-punk-but-much-more-fun and last but not least, dissonant post punk/proto noise sketches reminiscent of Membranes. Sometimes they opt to spew their lyrical nonsese in the english language which i think has its own awkward charm.
Album-Stream →Haunted Horses – Thee Worst
Verspannungskassette #18 (C-60) Dumpster Diving Edition
A global supply shortage of raw materials has sent blank cassette prices through the roof recently so i'm now using pre-owned tapes or whatever is available to me at the moment. Oh my... Results may vary. Enough of "recording the masters". From here on it's only crap recorded on crap. You've been warned.
Side A
Tracklist:
Mononegatives Circuits In View
Spike Pit Pretty Girls
Good Guys Fading
Goodbye World Fetch the Blade
Candy Apple Flak Jacket Family
Health Plan Stuck in a Loop
Das Das Stromlinienstadt
Pensioner Suburb Trap
Kaputt Another War Talk
Snooper Dog
Dumb Pizza Slice
Kool & the Gang Bangers Killer Kops
The Smog Noise Noise
Connie Voltaire Teenage Run-In
Axe Only Time
Side B
Tracklist:
VR Sex Rock N' Roll Death
Atomic Eater Hope U Die Too
Flat Worms The Guest
Coach Helt Derind
Puronylon Emo De Cerro
Can Kicker Free
Pardoner Came Down Different
Germ House Record The Mistakes
Kneeling In Piss Return, Return / Types of Cults
Tough Age Giuseppe Pizzeria
Can Kicker – Demo
This demo by a Cardiff group lures the listener in with an ultra-raw hardcore red herring, though it doesn't take long after that to realize there's a lot more to this burst of concentrated Lo-Fi energy as you blaze a trail through a thick layer of fuzz and distortion, which finally gives way to bright flashes of melody and an overall soundscape combining core ingredients of post punk and noise pop, coming across kinda like a beautifully deformed crossbreed between Sievehead and Piles.
Album-Stream →Flat Worms – The Guest / Circle 7″
Business as usual on the newest 7" by L.A.'s Flat Worms. Delightful, high quality business that is, with these two songs nailing their very own formula incorporating elements of garage punk, post punk and bursts of noise just dead on. So far, Flat Worms never failed to deliver the goods.
The Smog – First Time, Last Chance
Let me be blunt here: You guys wanna convince me to pay the equivalent of ~4,60€ for a digital download of only two songs, those two songs better be fucking brilliant. Luckily, fucking brilliant is exactly what these these two tracks by some Tokyo group are. Ka-ching!
Mononegatives – Apparatus Division
This London, Ontario group had put out a couple of already quite neat EP's in 2019 but it's only on their new full length debut that all the moving pieces really click into place for twelve 12XU-certified killer tracks made up of charmingly odd, highly inventive and exquisitely energetic garage-, synth- and post punk echoing shit like Useless Eaters, Pow!, Ex-Cult and Predator.
Album-Stream →