Telegenic Pleasure - Concentric Grave

What kind of twist­ed punk stu­dent ex­change pro­gram would lead to an al­bum be­ing record­ed both in Lon­don, On­tario and Lon­don, Eng­land? The band com­mit­ting the deed ap­pears to have connnec­tions to some London's Gag­gers and Mis­cal­cu­la­tions as well as some oth­er London's Iso­la­tion Par­ty and Mononeg­a­tives - the lat­ter be­ing the most ob­vi­ous com­par­i­son though, as their very own brand of spaced-out synth- and garage punk reigns supreme on this record too, along with flour­ish­es of Pow!, Use­less Eaters, Freak Genes, Iso­tope Soap, Mind Spi­ders, Pow­er­plant and Dig­i­tal Leather. Fuck­ing awe­some shit, in oth­er words.

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Romance - Seven Inches of Romance

A neat lit­tle yet-to-be-pressed 7" by a Syd­ney group sound­ing a lit­tle as if a more spiky ver­sion of Lithics col­lid­ed with the likes of noisy post punkers Brandy, the re­cent noisec­ore of Shove, a very slight hint of Wipers and the an­cient record­ings of noise rock­ers World Dom­i­na­tion En­ter­pris­es.

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Cosas Ilegales - Vol. 2

Af­ter the more vi­cious at­tack of their 2020 de­but al­bum, Mex­i­co City group Cosas Il­le­gales take a sharp turn to­wards a more melod­ic, some­what egg­punk-re­lat­ed ap­proach to their elec­tri­cal­ly dri­ven garage punk. As be­fore, groups such as S.B.F., Race Car and Kid Chrome might serve as use­ful com­par­isons but as of late, i'd add stuff like Prison Af­fair and Set-Top Box to that list as well as a spoon­ful of Met­al Ur­bain /​ Dr. Mix and the Remix.

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Chris Pal - New Weird

There's noth­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly smart or new about this record to tell you, yet there's plen­ty of en­joy­ment to get out of this old­school garage punk rack­et, sim­ple and ef­fec­tive, be­ing pulled off by some dude out of Rennes, France. On the genre map, you might lo­cate this shit some­where in the neigh­bor­hood of bands like The Spits, Buck Biloxi, Sick Thoughts, Die TV, Erik Ner­vous, Stal­ins Of Sound, Gior­gio Mur­der­er and Bart And The Brats.

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Deletions - STETS

It took the Har­ris­burg, Penn­syl­va­nia group a few years to tie up the loose ends and fin­ish the pro­duc­tion of this LP but here it fi­nal­ly is, giv­ing us more of their synth-, garage- and post punk that will once again elic­it com­par­isons to Dig­i­tal Leather - es­pe­cial­ly the sim­i­lar­i­ty of the singer's voice to DL's Shawn Foree al­ways strikes me as un­can­ny - al­though Dele­tions at this point sound more like a crud­er, yet si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly pret­ty straight­for­ward and catchy-as-fuck ver­sion of that. In the sec­ond half things lean heav­ier to­wards the post punk, slight­ly goth end of things, bear­ing some sim­i­lar­i­ty to, say, Pow­er­plant, Iso­tope Soap, Why Both­er? or ear­ly The Faint as well as some flour­ish­es of De­vo and Desparate Bi­cy­cles… even a touch of Mor­ri­cone in Dif­fuse and Con­fuse. Not every sin­gle ef­fort on here pays off equal­ly well but when they hit the spot, they do it with brava­do.

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Bad/​Dreems - See You Tomorrow

Hoo Ha! re­leas­es May 19th via Farmer & The Owl.

Shop Talk - Camp Hero

The Of­fer­ing re­leas­es April 21st via Mon Amie Records.

Why Bother? - Self Indulgent Ways

A City of Un­solved Mis­eries re­leas­es March 31st via Feel It Records.