Lothario - BBBF
Hogtied releases September 6th via Under The Gun Records and Low Ambition Records.
Big Bopper - Piss-Ant
Five Bucks - Super Stanzy Roks
Screensaver - Permanence
Gay Cum Daddies - Parrots Realm
Even in the face of pretty much anything that loose collective of musicians gathered around the New York label Decoherence Records has done so far, Gay Cum Daddies still stuck out as one of its most baffling agents of chaos and mischief. In a way, their newest LP is almost what you'd expect of this group at this point, an unwieldy bastard made of atonal and chaotic, no-wave-ish noise that, despite all the clutter and cacophony, never seems random. More than ever before, i get a sense of this group being totally in control of their craft at all times, their nerve-racking jams never leaving a trace of doubt that these dudes do indeed have a master plan. A weird, convoluted and disjointed one for sure, but a plan nonetheless. Once you've re-wired your brain to almost make sense of it, it feels like the most transgressive and shocking thing ever when Ribboning Boulder Hands Over Data actually has a discernible 4/4 beat playing for, like, a whole 30 seconds.
Album-Stream →Jëg Hüsker - My Dawn Promo
The second EP by this Karlsruhe, Germany group is also the first taste we're getting of an upcoming album and just like their excellent demo tape at the end of last year, this thing combines the grimy dungeon-esque garage vibes the group obviously inherited from Thee Khai Aehm, whose members comprise half of this group's lineup, with a distinct flourish of proto punk primitivism, plenty of spaced-out psychedelic excess á la late Destruction Unit, some hardcore energy in Tear It Up and even some melodic flourishes in My Dawn, while the closing track Inte Mer Hem is nothing short of raw and simple dungeon punk perfection.
Album-Stream →D.A.R.Y.L. - Rock n Roll High School
The debut album of this Austin, Texas dude has ten exquisite bursts worth of pure simplistic garage punk spectacle in store for us - same old shit basically, but also really, really fucking good, like, combining the traits of Buck Biloxi, Giorgio Murderer, Bart and the Brats, The Achtungs, The Dirts and earlier Sick Thoughts, these songs never miss their mark and admirers of the groups mentioned should just be on their knees already, begging this dude to take their money.
Album-Stream →Mr. Pescado - Dusty Perils
The second tape by this New York group, brought to us by local NY specialist label Fuzzy Warbles Cassettes, is an insanely satisfying mixture oscillating between the parameters of relaxed garage punk and equally slacked-off indie rock, a bit like a more indie rock-leaning Vaguess mixed with some early Woolen Men, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, recent Datenight or maybe a less cramped version of that latest Monda LP.
Album-Stream →Old City - Illusion Of Peace
The Last Thing Left to Harvest releases July 20th.
Billiam - Maid Dress
Animation Cell releases August 9th via Erste Theke Tonträger.
