At long last, here's the debut EP by Brisbane's Fast Johnny and the Slow Burners which revels in an unexpectedly oldschool make of garage punk mostly free of contemporary trappings - no egg, no synths, no bullshit and more than a little bit of a classic Gun Club energy to it. As such, it's certainly a bit at odds with more recent developments in the australian underground and could just as well have originated ten, twenty or thirty years ago and wouldn't have looked out of place. And what can i say, the formula still works flawlessly as the individual tunes simply stand up to the occasion and sometimes it doesn't take more than a bunch of killer riffs and a steady beat to make me go like mmmh, that's nice.
This group from Leipzig, Germany presents a curious mixture of slightly garage-leaning post punk that should sound pleasantly familiar to vigilant observers of the german scene yet operates on a level way above your average german-language punk artifact. The EP starts out strong with the death rock-infused vibes of A-B-C Alarm and only gets even better from there with songs like Trikont and Un Día En Grimma echoing other local garage acts á la Lassie, Ambulanz and Exwhite while other moments transport some of the DIY post punk vibe of Onyon or of Berlin groups like Pretty Hurts, Pigeon, Aus, Benzin and not least the also partly Leipzig-based group Laff Box.
On their kickass debut cassette this group from the british island of Jersey enters the scene with a fully formed sound juxtaposing some rather dark lyrical contents with completely opposite sonics of a markedly quirky, egg-ish quality, all of which reminds me of such things as early Powerplant, Tommy Cossack & The Degenerators, Wristwatch, S.B.F., Chtr or Beer.
On their freakin' brilliant debut EP, this San Diego group dabbles in a quite oldschool sounding approach of gruff and dark post punk with a slight hint of Oi! that doesn't try anything new but does everything right and is sure gonna please discerning genre afficinados and admirers of groups like Impotentie, Pyrex, Rank/Xerox and Institute, while standing out among the pack thanks to a pronounced melodic sensibility adding frequent flashes of color to that well-trodden genre formula, reminding me a little of early Iceage or of more recent works by the likes of Corker and NRG.
Now this shit is so right up my alley! The debut EP of this Providence, Rhode Island group just has so much class to it, a fully developed postcore aesthetic that you could locate somewhere inbetween some oldschool Drive Like Jehu, Rites Of Spring, Dag Nasty vibes and more recent genre phenomena like Waste Man, Bloody Gears, Glittering Isects (f.k.a. Uniform) and Dollhouse, adding some vague semblance of '90s emocore to the mix as well as uncharacteristically melodic, rock-solid song foundations perfectly anchoring their smart and elaborate sonic architecture.
Exquisite new spaced-out goodness on the fantastic second EP of this singaporean group whose acid-drenched haze of garage-, post- and synth punk feels a bit like a way more pissed-off variant of shit á la Useless Eaters, Ex-Cult, Pow! or Mononegatives, with just a smidge of rowdy primitive energy á la early Strange Attractor thrown in for good measure!
Gnats Gnats! Ismatic Guru Eighteen Miles Long Day Residue I Love What You've Done With The Place TV Dust Smelly Floor Wax Jaw Night Sweats Delivery Operating At A Loss Meat Wave Voicemail C.A.M.O Take It To The Grave Normal Weirds Peter Frantic The Antics Blind Eye Nick Cage Big Wave Shit Missile No Soul Gavin Picon-Seara Not a Toy Space Bucket Dan Thomas is Dead
Snarewaves EFFF CC Glycine Conlang Can Kicker It's Not Going Away Cult Crime Desperation Gents Mr. Shiny Teeth TY Nematode Small Portions Dumb as Dirt Vida Ruim DRAMA Sick Fucks Sick Lifestyle Obedient Retaliation No Way Not the Same Eskupa Mentí Die In Vain İşe Yaramaz Klint Haithabu
Tracklist
Liaam Dancing With My Clothes On Morbo Me Llega Al Pincho Denude 12th Battle On The Isonzo Tics IMG_20130221_122721 Open Head Bullseye Lackey Lolligag (Bambam Version) Stdees Laundromat Water Heater Pat Garrett Oyo OO Furia Fatal Power Geyser Piss Rules Gameboy 4 Xmas Vape Me Vape Me
Exposé MBB Raut Love Me Do Campamento Rumano Amenaza de paz Ritual La Força Huevo Mutantes Erik Nervous Kill The Kool Power Pants May I Rest Stray Dogs To Good Homes Grid City Skull Cult Organization Spleen Rien ne t'empêchera Winded Wish On The Mezzanine Son of Dribble Opening of the Mouth
