No Peeling – Can I Pet That Dog?
No Peeling releases September 5th via Feel It Records,
Semisoft – Stuck
Semisoft releases October 8th via Den Tapes.
Electric Prawns 2 – Hairy Man
Spodee Boy – Only Whittlin’
Save Bucks – Country Roads
Losses – Programmerer
Starburst – Good RX
Verspannungskassette #97 (C-90)
Tracklist
TTTTurbo Chainmailed Dreams
Cluttered Grotto Fangs
Gremlin Gremlin Wvz Here
The Phagocytes City Life
Apéro Dizney Werld
Gnomocop El Rabo De Morris
Snarewaves DIY
Lovebomb Crawlspace
JJ Sizza Warts, Flaws & All
Glitter On The Mattress Nervous Wreck
Lebende Tiere Ich Kenn Alles
Game Show Models Destroy
Bee Bee Sea It's All About the Fast Music
Sick Thoughts Another Piece Of Plastic
Osees Coffin Wax
D. Sablu Deep Seated (Demo)
Gunk Self Abused Man
Frenzy Arian Blood On My Boots
Total Flesh No Exception
Knee Hellbound
S.M.I.L.E. Cashing Checks
Scud Dirt Eater
Wealth Gap Video Nasty
Class Act Monkey Business
Supreme Joy Dead Mice
Dauber Supermarket
Tracklist
Emmett O'Connor Pieces Of My Life
Furia Fatal Combo Breakr
Sid Dig Digger Peer Pressure
Useless Eaters Lush Bomb
Knowso There is No Connection
Metho Desperation
Darker Than Black Magic
Grocery Bag Lies
Espasa A Dues Mans Jutipiris A La Mort
Shepparton Airplane Stereo Youth
Monda How Could You Say I'm Sorry?
Big Modern Parasite
Visual Learner Cure-All
Claimed Choice Knock You Out
Lost Legion Stuck in One Place
The Unknowns Psychotic
Heavy Lag Hüsker Døn't
Dark Thoughts Float Away
Ronny Spoiler Du Hast Dich Jahre Nicht Gesehen
Sex Mex Left Me in the Dark
Lebende Tiere – Uwaga
Brilliant new shit on Berlin's noise boutique Flennen Records by a group most likely based in Leipzig though i'm not entirely sure of that. This being another way above-average example of german-languange garage punk after that recent Ronny Spoiler single, i increasingly get a feeling there's something bigger brewing over here. Quite fittingly, their ever-so-slightly egg-leaning make of catchy garage goodness strongly reminds me of a colorful bunch of other german groups like Bremen's Wax Minds, Nuts of Cologne and Benzin from Berlin, but let's not overlook some striking similarities to bands of their (likely) Leipzig neighborhood with acts such as Exwhite, Ambulanz, Laff Box and Autobahns all scratching one or the other somewhat similar itch.
Album-Stream →Sick Thoughts – Another Piece Of Plastic
You can't ever go wrong with a new EP by Drew Owen's Sick Thoughts who have been a crucial joint in the american garage punk backbone for well over a decade now! Accordingly their new EP is yet another souvereign and self-assured blast of top-notch garage punk songwriting and effortless high-energy performances with quite a bit of variety as exemplified by the equally Buzzcocks-informed and new-wave-ish vibes of the title track, the hardcore attack of Just Die Fast, a sleazy hard-rockin' acid rock flourish in The Doom, the linking element of it all being a super catchy power pop-ish '77 vibe running all the way through these tunes.
Album-Stream →Shepparton Airplane – Forecast
Melbourne group Shepparton Airplane first caught my ear when they exploded right into my face with their 2018 sophomore LP Almurta, then quickly followed by a 2020 album that just didn't hit quite as hard for me - ambitious, sure, but also feeling kinda forced, like it's just been trying a bit too hard. After a radio silence of five years, just when the group had basically dropped off my radar, whe unexpectedly get to witness what is without doubt their most mature, accomplished record to date. Now their sound somewhere inbetween the realms of post punk, noise rock and postcore has always felt a bit old-fashioned, more comfortably fitting in the late 2000s to late-2010s, but that's also part of their charm, delightfully oldschool i'll say and certainly in the same league with some of the best groups said era had to offer like Sleepies, Bench Press, Diät, Batpiss, Rank/Xerox, the early works of USA Nails, Protomartyr and Gotobeds to name just a few... yeah even a slight vibe of Open Your Heart-era The Men may be hidden there in tunes like Stereo Youth. Anyway, each song on here is an elaborate, self-contained post punk drama taking its sweet time to unfold but never failing to lead straight into a rich and spectacular payoff.
Album-Stream →Mr. [Redacted] / Lovebomb / TTTTurbo
I'm a bit short on time this week so here's just a quick digest of quirky punk releases with varying degrees of egg-ish-ness of which these three particularly stuck out to me.
For starters, there are the comparatively rough sounds of Athens, Georgia group Mr. [Redacted] whose tunes rapidly alternate between the parameters of a hard-/art-/weirdcore sound not entirely dissimilar to groups like Judy & The Jerks, Warm Bodies, Sniffany & The Nits, and the more egg-intensive sounds of early Snooper, Print Head, Awful and early Skull Cult.
If you're more interested in classic egg punk territory, you may get tons of enjoyment out of the new Tape by Lovebomb from Hildesheim, Germany (man, the krautwürstle are really punching above their weight this week, aren't they?), wo deliver a densly packed bundle of snappy textbook eggpunk goodness most similar to shit á la Prison Affair, Beer, Winky Frown, Molbo and Goblin Daycare.
If you prefer it more weird and Lo-Fi, try the new one of Leipzig (again!) group TTTTurbo whose recorded output's overall aesthetic is the sonic equivalent of an n-th generation document that's been xeroxed a couple times too many - beneath a thick layer of burnt monochrome pixels and copy-of-a-copy xerographic grime there's plenty stuff left to the imagination but nonetheless you can't escape the ridiculous appeal of the catchy bubblegum pop nuggets buried in there.
Yuasa-Exide – The Picture You Painted
Go To Hell Encyclopaedia Britannica releases August 29th via Round Bale Recordings.
The Vasco Era – Everybody’s Talking About It
I Don't Mind releases September 19th via Marthouse Records.
Monda – How Could You Say I’m Sorry?
The Mondas releases August 29th.
