Shepparton Airplane – Forecast
Forecast releases August 8th via Wing Sing Records.
Histamine – Poison II (Miracle Cure)
Quality of Life releases June 27th via Convulse Records.
95 Bulls – Gin Shot
Canadian Nightclub releases June 20th.
Pyrex – Slugman
Slugman releases June 13th via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.
Nuclear Fear – Pantomime Of Power
Pantomime Of Power releases June 20th via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.
Black Dog – Drudgery
Sewn Into Confusion releases June 27th via Iron Lung Records.
Electric Chair – Weed Out The Rat
Electric Chair / Physique Split releases June 27th via Iron Lung Records.
Verspannungskassette #93 (C-60)
Tracklist
Smoocher Gimme The Gears
Groind Debt
Hollywood Fuckheads Shit Blows Up
Kram-A-Xam Pick Up the Phone, Idiot
Thought Partner Trop Chug
Cortada Fossa Séptica
A/Lpaca Laughter, Us Us
Thyroids Suited & Tied
Pill Time Pill Time
Frizbee So Sick
Snarewaves John Mcafee Shit
No Sector Flush Your Brain
Ideomotor U.C.S.A. (Don't Need It)
Psychic Vampire Sophomaniac
Degrowth Degrowth
Zyph Schnell Schnell
Oova En Tu Casa No Te Quieren
Crying Form Comm-unity
Destruxion Amerika Putrefaxion
Sword Breaker Under The Banner Of Vengeance
Tracklist
Missvnaries Ov Charity Radium Girls
Ex Iguana Growing Skin
Håndgemeng The Cauldron Born
Split System Chemicals
Meditation Big Frown
Dog Lips Brain Feeder
The Vacant Lot Age
Les Lullies A L'etroit
Laxisme 7 Secondes
Monda Everything You Wanted
The Gotobeds Goes Away
Thyroids – A Word With You…
Dallax, Texas punks Thyroids have been fucking around with different styles and vibes for quite a few years already but they really started to hit their stride with last year's excellent EP Toppings and Droppings. Now, for their first full LP, they've once again shaken up and diversified their sound considerably, with only traces left of the heavy synth punk leanings of the predecessor. The opening track ABCs of Assimilation delights with a variation on angular post-meets-garage punk shit á la Reality Group, Uranium Club, Exit Group and also quite a bit of Skull Cult - even more so in tunes like Static/Dynamic or The New Poor, which also have a bit of an undeniable Knowso vibe to them. The Loot and Don't Ask, Dumbass are no-frills borderline-hardcore gut punches. Daily Habits reimagines the group in a somewhat egg-ish guise while Enterview and Suited & Tied have something of a math-y postcore edge, vaguely reminiscent of the likes of Big Bopper, Rolex, Brandy or Mystic Inane. Check Engine Light conjures up some oldschool Useless Eaters or Ex-Cult energy. Cop Out is a hyper-focused and compact garage smasher getting maximum mileage out of an old-fashioned riff and the closing tune !!! Click Now To Claim Your Reward !!! once again goes all-in on the afrementioned Skull Cult and Uranium Club vibes to utterly hypnotic results.
Album-Stream →Ex Iguana – Be a Good Boy
A pretty fucking stunning debut LP from an Alamance, North Carolina duo excelling in a hazy and hypnotic mixture of noise rock, post punk, oldschool indie rock and the darkest alleys of the americana spectrum. The latter tendency often come across like a more vicious and propulsive take on the muddy southern gothic charm of (quite paradoxically) NYC based group Weak Signal but also, at certain points, you may find traces of the blues-y proto-noise rock of Feedtime and Scratch Acid, the swamp rock of eighties Scientists. The overarching melancholy of the whole affair then again reminds me of somewhat indie rock-leaning groups like Australia's Kitchen's Floor, Treehouse and earlier stuff of London's Witching Waves on one hand, the moody, eccentric post punk of acts like Auckland/Berlin-based groups Trust Punks, Dead Finks on the other, with further similarities to the deep abysses of Atlanta's Uniform, Glittering Insects, Mother's Milk or the folk-ish Angst- and Meat Puppets-indebted neo-proto-grunge of Bellingham, Washington group Pig Earth and Madison, Wisconsin's Dharma Dogs. All of that is being rolled expertly into ten all-killer-no-filler widescreen melodramas here with perfect sonic architectures marked by super effective buildups and payoffs.
Album-Stream →Psychic Vampire – Sophomaniac
Excellent garage-leaning horror punk from yet another Minneapolis group. I gotta admit i wasn't too thrilled at first as directionless is probably the right word to describe the opening track Lobotomized of their first long-playing effort, but thankfully after that, they quickly find their footing with pretty much everything that follows being on a different level altogether as flourishes of eighties early goth- and death rock collide with elements of early west coast punk and hardcore, plus riffs and solos straight out of the '70s metal and motörpunk playbook in an inventive and tight-as-fuck explosion of highly addictive hooks.
Album-Stream →Meditation – Spiritual Impurity
This Minneapolis group sets off some fine little blasts of quite classic-sounding postcore that roughly follows the old blueprints set out by Drive Like Jehu and - even more so - Hot Snakes, subsequently carried over into later punk eras by more recent groups like Wymyns Prysyn and Bloody Gears, though in this particular case i think it especially warrants a mention of shit like Ascot Stabber or Flowers of Evil as the way rougher side of that same coin so to speak, which reigns supreme especially in the second half of this EP. Now that i'm thinking of it, i also hear a bit of Video and early Bad Breeding.
Album-Stream →Supreme Joy – Into The Mirror
410,757,864,530 Dead Carps releases July 11th via VOD Records.
Civil Rats – Pool Party
Get Outta Here releases June 6th via Dummest Records.
Ortopedia Técnica – Caligari
Nada Brilla releases May 30th via Desorden Sonoro.