Verspannungskassette #51 (C-90)

Mononeg­a­tives North Car­oli­na Atom­ic Bomb
Pow­er Pants Stinger
Dee­beat Ra­mone XO Tourlife
S.G.A.T.V. I Need You
Be­ta Máx­i­mo. Frag­men­ta­dos
Teo Wise Pos­i­tive
The Gobs Freeze My Prick
Big Fyg Is That Right? (Love pt. 2)
Klint Mad At My­self
Hick­ey Know It All
Au­to­bahns Full Of Dogs
Äd­wud Demons
Cel Ray At­ten­tion

In­tro­vert­er Lowlife
Wayne Pain and the Shit Stains Tits from the Shad­ows
Moron's Mo­rons Nightvi­sions
Civic Born In The Heat
Big Break Big Break
People's Tem­ple Jan­gling Tune
Hood Rats M-39
Leche Pre­mi­um Suf­frage
Bar­ri­cad­ed Sus­pects Ter­mi­nal Growth
Del­co Mf's Fu­ture World /​ Death Of Me
Con­tra Scuadron 731
Zorn The Spell of The Fairy Tree

Gr3yboy Ne­va Love
Neon Kit­tens Spine
Elek­trokohle Voll­mond
Larochs That's The Bag I'm In
Faux­Fun Room Clear­er
Cat­a­logue Kids Of The Black Hole
Chon­cy Run­ning
Or­ren­do Sub­ot­nik C'or con­tri­to

Sun­down­er Can­cer Wages
Fat Black Cats Area 51
Golomb 71
Op­er­ants The Shift
Spi­ral XP De­ja Vu
Scab Breath In The Sum­mer
PLRLS Burn For Me
Tek­sti-TV 666 Jef­frey

Moron's Morons - High-Tension Situation

New de­prav­i­ty by pol­ish garage punk's cur­rent prime movers and shak­ers Moron's Mo­rons! To put it sim­ply, this shit is fuck­ing good - a vague­ly tra­di­tion­al old­school garage good­ness most­ly rem­i­nis­cent of oth­er eu­ro­pean groups like Shit­ty Life, Dadar, Mi­traille or Gluer as well as a few US acts á la Sick Thoughts, Hank Wood & The Ham­mer­heads. Al­so plen­ty of more old­school stuff to men­tion here like Australia's over­lords Saints and Ra­dio Bird­man, clas­sic Cal­i­for­nia punk shit of the Germs, Agent Or­ange, Ado­les­cents va­ri­ety goin' on in num­bers like Psy­chosis Di­ag­no­sis and Noth­in' for You.

Al­bum-Stream →

Teksti-TV 666 - Vapauden Tasavalta

A new LP by that finnish group with way to many gui­tar play­ers… dun­no, i think 666 was the num­ber last time i count­ed. Here, the band is shift­ing their sound in­creas­ing­ly in­to a psych rock di­rec­tion. Es­pe­cial­ly in TJ they're div­ing head­first in­to Space Rock ter­ri­to­ry and the ef­fort pays of ad­mirably. In oth­er places, they stay true to their brand of melod­ic in­die rock, fuzz punk and noise pop with echoes of No Age, Wavves, Cal­i­for­nia X, Hap­py Div­ing and some ear­ly The Men, which they then in­fuse with sprawl­ing gui­tar drones rem­i­nis­cent of Glenn Bran­ca and 80s Son­ic Youth.

Al­bum-Stream →

Catalogue - Modern Delusion

It took me a while to no­tice but the newest LP by Mar­seille group Cat­a­logue turns out to be their strongest ef­fort to date. Where their sound could still be a lit­tle tir­ing on their pre­vi­ous LP, they show a lot more va­ri­ety on their newest one keep­ing things in­ter­est­ing through­out. Their noisy post punk, as usu­al be­ing dri­ven for­ward by eight­ies-style drum ma­chine beats, may owe a lit­tle to Big Black in some parts, Live Skull in oth­ers or some no-wave dis­so­nance gets loaded up with catchy hooks. In House­plants we even get to hear some al­most synth-/new wave stylings.

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Cel Ray - Cellular Raymond

Much stronger than i fig­ured at first glance, the de­but tape by Chica­go group Cel Ray. This shit is car­ry­ing sim­i­lar vibes to some of the great fe­male-front­ed punk groups of our time like Vexx, Neg­a­tive Scan­ner, Judy & The Jerks, Amyl and the Snif­fers, All Hits, The Neu­ros, BB and the Blips… while al­so ap­par­ent­ly tak­ing cues from a larg­er clus­ter of groups on the in­ter­sec­tion of post- and garage punk á la Pat­ti, Re­al­i­ty Group, Ura­ni­um Club, Ex-Cult or Mys­tic Inane.

Al­bum-Stream →

People's Temple /​ Hood Rats /​ Hickey

Three hard­core re­leas­es es­pe­cial­ly stuck out this week, all of 'em more or less tread­ing off the genre's beat­en paths. The most con­ven­tion­al­ly sound­ing - rel­a­tive­ly speak­ing of course - is the EP by People's Tem­ple on NY la­bel Roach­Leg Records, giv­ing us an ex­treme­ly tune­ful vari­a­tion on 80s hard­core, at times com­ing across like a blend of Cir­cle Jerks with ear­ly-to-mid­dle-era Naked Ray­gun and with oc­ca­sion­al flour­ish­es of Hüsker Dü to boot. Of more re­cend Bands, Fried E/​m might al­so fit the bill.
Hickey's tape on Arch­fiend records then in­fus­es con­tem­po­rary strands of garage-, synth- and egg­punk weird­ness with plen­ty of old­school hard­core en­er­gy, along the way al­so evok­ing the some vibes of Flip­per, Spike in Vain, Bro­ken Tal­ent… With this re­lease, we might just be en­ter­ing the eggcore era!
Montreal's Hood Rats op­er­ate in a vague­ly sim­i­lar ter­ri­to­ry, al­so hav­ing a sound ground­ed in garage punk brim­ming with lo-fi egg­punk quirky­ness just as much as with an un­kempt KBD en­er­gy and the tunes to make it stick.

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Public Body - No Constraint

Big Mess re­leas­es June 9th via Fat Cat Records.

The Dark - Fire In The Church

Dress­ing The Corpse re­leas­es March 17th via Scat Records.

Gentilesky - On And On

Gen­tilesky re­leas­es April 19th via HoZac Records.

Cathedrale - Silent Castle

Words /​ Si­lence re­leas­es April 21st via Howl­in Ba­nana Records.