Plastic Psalms - Self-Stained Slate
Self-Stained Slate releases March 19th via Tape Dad / Cult Love Sound Tapes.
Canid - Claim
Claim releases March 5th.
Verspannungskassette #14 (C-90)
Side A
Tracklist:
Party Dozen The Worker
ISS (Met)forming
Collate Medicine
Sick Thoughts Poor Boys
Sick Set Video Queen
Silicon Heartbeat Channel 57
Trash Ferraris Philistine
The Dirts I'm So Poor
The Shit Missile Fuel Injected Dreams
Faux Depart Cœur d'Acier
Poison Ruïn Doppelgänger
Lawnmowers Empty
D.B.R. Beat-up
Dead Finks Receiver
Human Trophy The Roads
Nag Wool Eyes
Expert Tour De Farce
Sun Gimp Fishbowl
Side B
Tracklist:
Bredouille What´s Your Pleasure?
Metdog Carrot Or The Stick
Eugh Sad Song
Tommy Cossack Mobile Phonies
Sylvie S Chew My Eyes
Freak Genes Power Station
Big Chungus Diarrhea Dog
Pensioner Nice Guy Iii
Zoids Kill Hippie
Exxxon Sunnoco
Dork Clipping
The Stools Life's Hard Lover
Foil Stuck In A Slump
Psychic Void City Of Waste
Hüstler Corpus Vile
Nopes Smile Room
The Sweatys Sick Of Me
Liquids Strutter
Modern Cynics The End
Death By Unga Bunga Modern Man
Nice Surprise I'm Old
Shimmer Bed Love Myself
Mush B2BCDA
Silicone Prairie Born into Trouble
Uncle Pit End of the Decade
False Tracks Oblivion
Nag - Observer
Following last year's somewhat more refined full-length debut, the second LP by Atlanta dark-/post punk group Nag feels more like a throwback to their earlier EPs - and i mean that in all the best ways. These songs are raw as fuck, the arrangements almost as sparse as you can possibly stretch the genre before it's gonna collapse. Why write a goddamn novel when all you need to get across is a single but rather desperate sentence?
Album-Stream →Nice Surprise - Nice Surprise
Nice surprise indeed, this lathe cut 7" debut by some Austin duo making catchy noise somewhere in the realm of power- and garage pop. Especially the killer A-Side I'm Old will no doubt be a feast for fans of bands like Tommy & The Commies, Bad Sports, Radioactivity, Cheap Whine or Sonic Avenues.
Exxxon - Gas Tape / More Gas
This group of unclear provenance recently put out their second tape - once again via Wyoming cassette label Deluxe Bias - and just like the first one it's a massive lo-fi blast of noise that sounds a bit like The Stooges and MC5 reimagined as a hardcore band. A certein Bad Brains drive adds even more to the overall oldschool vibe and in the current scene, you might describe them as a slightly souped-up version of Vexx… yeah, makes perfect sense i guess. Their fuel's got 50% more X.
Poison Ruïn - Poison Ruïn II
I already liked this Philadelphia group's first tape a lot but its successor raises the bar even higher for their own mixture of garage-, post- and dungeon punk that doesn't shy away from allowing quite a bit of very oldschool "heavy" metal into the mix - in regards to the movie just as much as the genre.
Album-Stream →Trash Ferraris - Trash Ferraris
Some straight, simple, stupid, and super-effective garage punk fun made by some folks of the extended Vaguess, Useless Eaters, Fernando & The Teenage Narcs orbit. Has some Ex-Cult vibes, but primarily i'm reminded of australian groups like The Living Eyes, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Mini Skirt. Even a slight Saints/Radio Birdman feel is clearly present here.
Album-Stream →Collate - Medicine / Genesis Fatigue
It took the Portland, Oregon trio a few releases to get there, but their newest 7" is pushing all the right buttons for me with its no wave-infused as well as Gang Of Four-inspired danceable post punk, which in this particular case reminds me especially of Brighton group Austerity.
Shimmer Bed - Aquaria, Escapism & Other Favorites
The recent recorded output by Los Angeles garage project Shimmer Bed is, to be quite honest, a bit too prolific for me to dive deeper into right now - which is why this excellent compilation tape put out by the spanish label Discos Peroquébien is such a welcome gift that made me aware of this dude in the first place. Over the span of a whopping 22 tracks we get to witness a remarkably diverse spectrum of sounds ranging from bedroom weirdo garage punk that might evoke the melodicity of Vaguess, the noise pop of Jah Hell and the playfulness of Dee Bee Rich, Nuts or Prison Affair, to psychedelic pop reminiscent Rat Columns or various eighties Flying Nun acts and inbetween al this, there's even time for some noisy post punk sketches.
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