Leper – Suckling Pigs
Ögat//The Eye releases June 30th via Kink Records.
Verspannungskassette #15 (C-60)
Side A
Tracklist:
Germ House Bottled At The Source
Spodee Boy Dress The Part
Headcheese Sucker
Taqbir Al-zuki Akbar
The Chisel Enough Said
Fashion Change Coward
Good Guys Closed Off
Reggie And The Stoners We're Only Kidding
Cexcrime Super Fry
Qwom Q
Pilgrim Screw Absolute Fucking Human
Imposition Man Natural Ways
Sarcasm Digital Colony
Trigger Cut Yessss Brother
DWP Running On
S:Bahn Exhaustion
Side B
Tracklist:
Salamirecorder Bapapapapaaa
The Mudd Club Sick
The Stools Rockpile
Warm Exit Crocodile In My Brain
Pringue Positivo
Edible Pet Cataclysm
TempleTime! Total Bunk
The Cripples Cease To Exist
Max Capacity Gone Week
Cosme A
Cosas Ilegales Donde Están Los Punks?
Beta Máximo Eclipse
Dark Web Gold Toupee
Sweet Reaper Cowards
Ope Culture Paste
Slayer Jr – Slayer Jr
Another way-too-short cassette bearing the gift of quality dumb oldschool punk crankiness of the heavily KBD-leaning kind, made by two members of L.A. weirdos Launcher. What's not to like?
Album-Stream →Cosas Ilegales – Cosas Ilegales
This is already the second awesome release for this week coming out of Mexico. To be fair, this record is already a few months old but still… there's clearly something brewing over there. The debut album by this group is a highly concentrated caffeine shot of drum machine-driven full-speed-straight-ahead garage punk with some slight similarity to groups like S.B.F., Kid Chrome or Arse. Sometimes noisy, sometimes melodic, always catchy and exhilarating.
Album-Stream →Kaputt – Movement Now
Movement Now / Another War Talk 7" releases May 14th via Upset The Rhythm.
S.U.G.A.R. – I Don’t Want To Be Your Friend
S.U.G.A.R. releases April 9th via Alien Snatch! Records.
UV-TV – Distant Lullaby
Always Something releases May 28th via Papercup Music.
Needles//Pins – A Rather Strained Apologetic
Needles//Pins releases May 28th via Dirt Cult Records.
Alien Nosejob – HC45-2
This is the second hardcore 7" of muteant Jake Robertson's Alien Nosejob for Iron Lung Records, his third harcore-centric release overall if i didn't miss anything. And of course it's yet another delightful batch of playful, inventive takes on the genre. What else did you expect?
Album-Stream →Cosme – Demo
Now that thing's a treat! Some group from Ciudad López Mateos, Mexico delivers a truckload of pure joy on this tape, condensed into three straightforward-as-fuck bangers made out of fuzzed-out garage- and bubblegum punk with some synth-sweetness on top, transmitting an undiluted sugar rush straight into your bloodstream.
Album-Stream →Dollhouse – The First Day Of Spring
Dollhouse's 2019 demo already was a thoroughly respectable blast of forward-thinking noise and even more so is their new EP that came out recently via Toxic State Records, thanks to a comparatively slick production putting their sound emanating from a gray area between modern hardcore, post punk and postcore in just the right light, balancing abrasive scuzz with sheer force. The whole thing calls to mind a refreshingly diverse cluster of groups like Mystic Inane, Hot Snakes, Wymyns Prysyn, Launcher, Cement Shoes or Liquid Assets.
Album-Stream →Set-Top Box – Max Headroom
Another tasty foursome of catchy, quirky garage- and synthpunk blasts sees this rather mysterious australian group/project continually creeping towards devofied DIY punk perfection, solidifying their ever-rising status among their genre pool's supreme present-day überdudes.
Album-Stream →Electric Chair – Social Capital
On their newest EP for Iron Lung Records, the Olympia, Washington group dials down the garage factor of its earlier efforts a few notches without sacrificing their own distinct vibe, skillfully avoiding the pitfalls of a dull oldschool purism by breaking with the tried-and-tested hardcore formulas in all the right moments, while still embracing their timeless potency where it matters.
Album-Stream →Civic – Future Forecast
This Melbourne group's first longplayer is a seamless continuation of what was already so lovable about their previous EPs. Sure, their style of oldschool garage punk with that undeniable Radio Birdman vibe has grown a quite long beard by now, but what a charming and glorious beard that is! To be fair, they're also trying out some new things here, at some points letting a touch of Wipers shine through, dabbling in dark post punk or trying their hands at AmRep-style sludgy noise rock. But let's not kid ourselves here; what this group does best at this moment is knocking out one straightforward yet sophisticated rocker after another with amazing confidence.
Album-Stream →T.L.B.M. & The Joy Toys – T.L.B.M. & The Joy Toys
For every purchase of this nice little cassette put out by our favorite incorporated purveyors of innovative discontinuity you also get a free fake origin story. 1982 my ass, this is of course still the same dude who did this other thing a while back. Though his newest output contains a bit less weird fuckery, it makes up for that with a lot more fuzz, more melodies and negative zero production values that sound just right to my ears.
Album-Stream →