Hit Bargain - Degree Decree
A Dog A Deer A Seal releases November 10th via Get Better Records.
Verspannungskassette #62 (C-90)
Lethal Weapon Big Pos
Surge Tossed Aside
Geeked Freak City
V.D. (I Wanna) Psychotic Break
Cicada Self Purification
Slant Dejected
Hez Niños Malos
Wet Specimens Cursed Ethic
Colony·drop 戦争屋の幽霊
Dogs of Eternity Cosmic Genocide
Redacted How You Feel
Negative World Status Obsolete
Rejekts Paranoid
Insane Urge No Sense
Sweepers This Dirty House
Aborted Tortoise Malpractice
Deebeat Ramone Beat The Beatles
Ghoulies Self-Help
Sprgrs Mickey Mouse Me Ha Mordido
Hostile Blitz All Will Perish
Baghed Big Ol' Ego
Daughter Bat & The Lip Stings Milo The Dog
Dirty Ass Masturbasi Pembangkang Delusional
Satanic Togas Digital Word
Theee Retail Simps Jumpin Jack Off
Virvon Varvon Voices
Telekrimen Himno a la banda
Billiam Out On Medication
Завірюга Змія У Штанях
Osees Goon
Crying Loser Wet Grip
Edging Fear Cowboy
Nurse Joy Comfortable
Hevrat Ha'Hashmal שוק על ירך (Shin on Thigh)
Corker H.E.
Gas Kunst 101.4
The Present Age Cut Twice
Mother's Milk Ominous Creature
Tube Alloys Computer Love Again
Gym Tonic Play Dead
Vintage Crop Springtime
Katarsi Heridas
SGATV Brain, Not OK
Tube Alloys - Magnetic Point
A ridiculously appealing and thrilling work, the debut LP by this Los Angeles Group. Elaborate and intricate constructs of dark, song-oriented post punk with some psychedelic undercurrents, totally timeless and yet carrying the hallmarks of so much of what has kept me and this blog busy in the past decade-plus. Wire circa Chairs Missing and the '60s Pink-Floyd-isms of Paint Thinner or The Blinds come to mind in epic pieces like Blooding, Slang Word and the title track Magnetic Point while Apathy, at least in the beginning, smells a bit of Membranes, Swell Maps, early Mekons, '80s The Fall and Desperate Bicycles. Jubilee somehow evokes the combined traits of a trifecta of Atlanta groups - Nag, Predator and Wymyns Prysyn. I just can't stop namedropping shit really as i'm reminded so much more awesome stuff - think the likes of Marbled Eye, Waste Man, Public Eye, Institute, Rank/Xerox, Public Interest, Negative Gears, VR Sex, B Boys, Creative Adult, Pyrex… this is dense shit throughout!
Album-Stream →SGATV - SGATV
Swedish label Push My Buttons brings us the full length debut of this swiss group, which also presents their strongest set of tunes so far and their sonic vision at its most realized. That means: a deviously catchy dopamine rush of glitzy wave-ish synth- and garage punk smashers - exquisite sugary goodness echoing the likes of Wristwatch, Digital Leather, Sex Mex, Teledrome, Powerplant, The Gobs, Shrinkwrap Killers, Stalins Of Sound and Videodrome.
Album-Stream →The Present Age - Radio Static Intelligible
This Oshkosh, Wisconsin group is cooking up a variety of inventive and adaptive anochronisms roughly in the realms post punk and postcore, garage punk and classic '90s indie rock, coming off as refreshingly out-of-place and -touch in today's landscape. Some '90s Dischord-meets-Touch and Go feel is going on in tracks such as Phthalate Mates and the groovy psychedelic closing epos Clumsy Ascetic. A hint of Protomartyr in Locks Fasten, psychedelic flourishes in The Delivery and hints of Swervedriver in songs like Radio Static. Further, at different points, you might be reminded of recent post punk/-core acts like Batpiss, Stuck and Bench Press, groups on the intersection of garage- and post punk like Tyvek, Parquet Courts or Flat Worms in addition to groups on the more melodic and jangly edges of post- and art punk á la Gotobeds, Sleepies, Tape/Off and Shark Toys.
Album-Stream →Daughter Bat and the Lip Stings - Secret Tape
This Sydney group has never disappointed and neither do they on their newest top-secret EP, so secret in fact, that even the song titles shall remain a mystery for the time being. What i can tell you though is that this thing once again fucking slams - another perfect run of lo-fi power pop, garage-, fuzz- and eggpunk. Just don't tell anyone, okay?
Corker - Falser Truths
Feel It Records (along with Urticaria Records and Future Shock Recordings who are releasing this thing on cassette) brings us yet another strong post punk record with this Cincinnati group's debut LP which, while mostly treading on fairly familiar ground for longtime observers of this space, has also plenty of variety and the well-crafted songs to make it stick. An absolute no-brainer for fans of VHS, Criminal Code, Pyrex, Rank/Xerox, Schedule 1, Sievehead or Marbled Eye.
Album-Stream →Insane Urge - My America
This group's second cassette on Impotent Fetus or Down South Tapes or whatever it's called this week, considerably one-ups their previous one in terms of undiluted fury while carrying across all the traits we've come to expect from that label's output - rough and grimy as fuck yet unexpectedly catchy at the same time. A perfect storm of garage- and KBD-infested hardcore primitivism.
Album-Stream →Gym Tonic - Sanitary Situations
A good four years after an insanely enjoyable debut LP of this Berlin group, we finally get another taste of the same, fairly quirky yet expertly propelled synth-, garage- and post punk goodness sure to delight admirers of stuff in the vein of, say, Belly Jelly, Puff, Dummy, Ausmuteants, Quitter, Liquid Lunch, Ghoulies, Diode or Spotting.
Album-Stream →Wimps - Mom
City Lights releases October 13th via Youth Riot Records.
