What kind of a lame week would this be without some new eggpunk release? This Indianapolis group has us covered, playing a rather basic but nonetheless fun and rock-solid variant of the genre, finding their own sweet spot somewhere inbetween the likes of early Prison Affair, Deebeat Ramone, Beta Máximo, Midgee, Goblin Daycare and Winky Frown. Shit just works, no complaints here.
Album-Stream →Paranoia releases May 30th via Where It's At Is Where You Are.
Bad Vibes OST releases May 23rd via Slovenly Recordings.
Ratonera Humana Subnormal
Bart And The Brats Pigeonholed
Horns Soon
Public House Twist The Knife
Beer Pine Barrens
Snarewaves ABV
Socke Wien oder Berlin
Gerber and the Babies Paranoia
Snooper In The Dark
Negative Outlook Nausea, Spilling Through My Veins
Chemical Bank New American Dark Age/Everything Is Hate
The Bad Plug Moon Flower Fields
20 Minutes Drop the Bomb
Krul A Body
Worst Intentions Association
Necron 9 Not Me
SSIK Inferior Health
Nourishment Warm And Rotting
Cringe Fantasy Pop Music Ruined My Life
Mr. Piss Knife Fight
Trigger Cut Crash Crew
Fugitive Bubble Ego Drip
Jacket Burner Nothin' To Me
Teo Wise Colpo in Canna
Dirty Fences Running Again
Steroid Rotting In The Prison
Power Pants I Wanna Be More
Mr. Pescado Wet Books
Dauber Metal Rectangle
Flèches Effacé.e Par La Foule
Window Phase Guy Ferrari
Dad Joke Dad Joke
Slick Lake Day
Finally! Here it is, the first longplayer of Sydney's Gordo Blackers a.k.a. Steröid who's previously also had a hand in groups like Draggs and Gee Tee among others. A good three years after their debut EP blew a brand new hole into the castle walls of lo-fi egg- and dungeon punk, their sound remains a completely singular and yet strikingly simple affair, mixing the quirky fun of garage- and eggpunk with the catchy hooks and riffing of early eighties metal and arena rock. The result is a potent and intoxicating concoction so addictive it shouldn't be legal really. As usual with anything even remotely metal-related, i'm kinda ill-equipped to make any specific assumptions about musical roots and influences at least on the metal side of things, so i'm gonna stay in my lane here and just say that these tunes fuckin' rip without exception and the second half of this record is a welcome change of pace after the more straightforward, breathless hit marathon of side a, when the stylistic parameters become a good bit more varied, elaborate and adventurous, all of which is presented here in an ultra-dry no-frills mid-fi recording aesthetic that clears and tightens things up considerably compared to the earlier EP without watering anything down. Yup, that shit sounds absolutely fucking perfect if you ask me!
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This group from Olympia, Washington has always been an exquisite thrill ride with their two previous EPs and an LP, all of which came out via the reliably excellent cassette label Impotent Fetus. Following a vinyl reissue of said LP via Sorry State Records, that very same label now presents us with their second album and as expected, their hyperactive mix of art- and garage punk, hard- and postcore is yet another delightfully overwhelming assault on the senses equally unpredictable, smart and elaborate, somewhat reminiscent of old left-field hardcore acts like Tragic Mulatto (most strikingly in Failed Experiment), Really Red and Saccharine Trust on one hand but just as related to more recent phenomena like Mystic Inane, Warm Bodies, Launcher, Vexx, Rolex, Cucuy or Big Bopper.
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This Evesham, New Jersey Group has already racked up a substantial bandcamp discography but damn, is this new LP a massive jump in quality! On it, they craft a wall of catchy noise pop and fuzz punk inbetween the worlds 2000s-'10s noise pop and indie rock acts á la Milk Music, Male Bonding, No Age on one hand and golden-era '80s Dinosaur Jr. on the other, though with the particular distinction that every single tune on here seems inspired by Lou Barlow's desperate growls and screams in that brutal closing track of the Bug LP, Don't, rather than the introverted nasal voice of J Mascis. Also, there's a some oldschool My Bloody Valentine action going on in Boy Christening and Mark Prindle has a bit of The Wedding Present being sent into noisy blown-out post punk hellscape.
Album-Stream →I Don't Care About Anything releases May 2nd via Slovenly Recordings,
Ripped and Torn releases June 6th via Matador Records.
Blowmania releases April 28th via Chaputa Records (EU) & Trash Cult Records (AUS).
Another kickass Painter's Tape by yet another Detroit garage group excelling in a moderately egg-ish take on more-or-less contemporary Garage- and Synth Punk that, once you made it past the cheesy intro, doesn't sound very cute at all and much darker than expected with a distinct post punk-ish feel to tracks like Paranoia and quite a bit of stylistic freedom and flexibility reminding me at different points of such groups as S.B.F., Ghoulies, Spits, Stalins Of Sound, Kid Chrome, Lost Sounds, Mind Spiders, Sex Mex, Exit Mould, The Gobs, Broken Prayer and Kerozine.
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