Another Achterlicht EP, another high-octane blast from these dutchmen who have no doubt delivered their best set of tunes so far on this new cassette. The group has never sounded this tight on record before and the songs themselves also show a huge leap forward, delivering a non-stop barrage of dangeruous hooks and catchy tunes roughly in the vein of such garage-/synth-/eggpunk heavyweights as Dadar, Satanic Togas, Research Reactor Corp. and Gee Tee.
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Wow, now that's is one marvellous debut EP by this Philadelphia group dealing in a kind of earthy, dissonant and eccentric, yet equally graceful blend of art- and post punk. The monotonous no wave-ish strumming of the opening track The Shield calls to mind the minimalism of Shop Regulars or Honey Bucket while Green Man has more of an early eighties The Fall vibe with further commonalities to, say, fellow philadelphians Toe Ring and B.E.E.F. 39X. The vicious grooves of Gangstalker, holding a delicate balance of dissonance and catchyness, are then approximately channeling some more spiky version of Lithics coupled with some dissonant Glenn Branca- and eighties Sonic Youth guitar work, a bit like we've more recently heard from Self Improvement, for example.
This Leipzig group could quite easily end up filed away right next to other german-language post punk acts like Hyäne, early L'apell Du Vide, Kalte Hand and Die Wärme... you know, the genre's - mostly berlin-based - usual suspects and as natural as this comparison feels at first glance, there's quite a bit more more going on here than just another competent rehash of the tried-and-tested formula and i see just as much similarity to a bunch of international acts - Criminal Code first and foremost but also comparisons to the likes of Negative Gears, Sievehead, recent Longings and Pyrex don't seem all that far-fetched to me.
Album-Stream →Plinth releases October 11th via Company Businesses.
Hey, At Least You're Not Me releases October 18th via Feel It Records.
Faux Départ releases October 15th via Hidden Bay Records.
Beep Thrash II releases October 18th via Ghostspace Records.
Big Smile releases November 16th via Roolette Records.
Timmy Vulgar's Zeta Reticuli
Operants In the Hell Rock
Demolition Man Speed Camera
Mitraille Laundry Tonight
Zippo! Wisconsin
Scared Of Chaka Nobody
Itches Level 25
Love Collector Toner Loner
Gonk Big Pig
Handcuff Keep, Repeat
Exit Mould 21st Century
Satanic Togas Illusions
Deformative Straight Away
Achterlicht No Shoes
Bozo Burglar
Radar & Satellite Handshake
No Brains Sewer People
Expest Negative Asshole
Power Shovel Jackin off to moby dick
Dani Alarma! Villano Inexistente Ataca
Success Super .22
W.M.D.s Toy
Speedy Muffler Orb
Santo Blanco Abyss
DE()T It's Going Great
Funeral Mess Isolation
Axxident Sur les pavés
Lohn Der Angst Exzess
Freak Genes Neoware
Burdo La Náusea
Flat Worms Letters From the Outpost
Fake Fruit Más O Menos
Cherry Cheeks Wire
The Bug Club Quality Pints
Temporary Curse Computer Hell
Beta Máximo Negativo Esperanzado
Jëg Hüsker My Dawn
Patrol Cold Blood
Fantasma Trabalho Invisível
The Hammer Party E.M.B.R.Y.O.
It Thing …In Ruins
Rehash Kunsthochschule
Licklash Party Line
Hatula Nevela No One Taught You
Fastbacks The Answer Is In Gray
Paint Fumes Crime of Love
With each new Alien Nosejob release, you never quite know what you're gonna get. An oldschool hardcore attack? Sad-sack power pop? A straight-up Ausmuteants throwback? Relentlessly hammering industrial punk? Heavily eurotrash/italo disco-informed synth pop? A full LP of AC/DC cock rock worship? I'm just gonna say all of this, and more, has happened before with Jake Robertson's constantly shape-shifting project. Yet, there's always an unmistakable signature to anything the garage punk auteur does and if there is such a thing as a "classic" Alien Nosejob sound, this new record is about as close as it's gonna get while still giving us plenty of stylistic variety molded into a super catchy set of new tunes never being let down by Robertson's unimpeachable songwriting chops.
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Finally, here's the debut album of Cleveland, Ohio art punks The Carp, a group comprised of folks also connected to acts like Perverts Again, Knowso and Cruelster. With most of these songs already having made an appearance on their 2022 demo, here they're given some final polish here with the increased production values adding plenty of punch, while their sound overall kinda bridges the gap between the sonic traits of Knowso and Cruelster, combining the elaborate yet rigid structures of the former with the straght-ahead fun and energy of the latter, with even a bit of a cowpunk vibe á la Murderer in The Old Ways.
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The second LP of this group from Antwerp, Belgium featuring at the very least one Member of Itches plus former members of Star Visitors and The Queefs, takes their kinda basic garage punk formula into a somewhat more eleborate and polished direction having a bit of a Vintage Crop, early Patti, Reality Group or Yammerer vibe to them, while also retaining much of the previous album's qualities reminiscent both of euro acts like Dadar, Shitty Life and US acts of the previous decade á la Shark Toys, Ex-Cult and Tyvek. So, nothing too new or groundbreaking going on here but plenty of demented fun to be had anyway whith this collection of thoroughly competent and well-crafted garage tunes.
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The successor to last year's kickass second EP of this Cincinnati, Ohio group makes no attempt at fixing what ain't broken and instead delivers four new blows of that very same awesomness incorporating elements of noise rock, post-, garage- and synth punk with various bits and pieces reminding me of the likes of Busted Head Racket, Brandy, R.Clown, ISS, Spyroids and Knowso, De()t, Toy Brigade or Nervous Tick and the Zipper Lips.
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