Verspannungskassette #82 (C-60)
Tracklist
Torx Lasso
Captain Pigeon Rogue Wave
Hyperdog Likes
Slugs Triplette
The Caries Company Pastel De Arandanos
Bugswallow All Critters
Prison Affair Celebrate Your Death
Pisse Zwangsneurose
Power Pants Unscanable
Reckless Randy Too Many Babies
Gull House The Boardwalk
Pressure Pin Who's Scared Now?
Peter And The Skeeters Not My Problem
Violent Impulse Here To Stay
Achterlicht Lucid
Joe & The Shitboys Please Seek Help
Frvits Eat Fruits Piss Rocks
The Protos Bleed Till The Day I Die
Texture Freq So What? It’s The Future
Big Bopper Ochlophobia
Fentanyl Ever Ending
Double Over Boring Death
Häpeä Myrkky
Fervor Mortal Frustración
Black Button Living Velvet
Das Nest Second Tier
Beef Secondhand Toe Jam
Yuvees Running
The Carp Oh No
Tracklist
Purp Mind Stage
Soup Activists Lugubrious Moat
Roswit King's Song
Class Be-Bop with the Rats
The Shield Green Man
A Place To Bury Strangers Disgust
Cosey Mueller Trotzstadt
Tube Alloys Evil Angels
Crime Waves Creeps
Medium Total Control
Vypers Sweet Change
Hedge Boulder Toss
Cold Summer Keiner ist mehr da
Weak Signal Disappearing
Death By Unga Bunga & Mike Krol Therapy
Alien Nosejob Trapped in Time
Thine Retail Simps Barstool Blooze
Celebrity Sighting Hourglass
Pressure Pin – Polyurethane
Now if you thought the 2022 EP of this Montreal group was kinda weird and bananas, Pressure Pin be like: "Hold my beer" 'cos you've seen nothing yet! For their second EP, they considerably raise the bar both in terms of sophistication and of unpredictable chaos and mayhem in their totally nuts compositions whose rough characteristics hover somewhere around the spheres of garage-, synth-, art- and eggpunk with a pronounced element of devocore, all the while being hellbent on nuking the confines of those genres respectively. This kind of eclectic anything-goes approach reminds me most of recent works by Trashdog and Checkpoint, though if you take it one stylistic ingredient at a time, you might also find bits and pieces of the '90s-midi-style pop excursions of Metdog, the Devo-isms of recent Isotope Soap, the sparkling joy of Snooper and the quirky, catchy garage-/art punk explosions of Smirk and Cherry Cheeks. These dudes put more ideas and inspiration in a single tune than your average garage act does in a whole album.
Album-Stream →Munchkin Head – One Way Ticket To Pound Town
Another awesome EP by that that completely off-the-rails Los Angeles hair punk / egg metal act cementing their status as the severely brain damaged evil cousins of electro punk greats ISS and Heavy Metal, combining an absurd stylistic premise with lyrical contents of only the most deranged quiet-part-out-loud / "Did he really just say that?" variety into a thoroughly ridiculous and fun bit of delightful chaos.
Album-Stream →Jealous Yellow – Purple Crayon
Jealous Yellow releases October 18th via Erste Theke Tonträger.
1-800-Mikey – Rental Girlfriend
Digital Pet releases October 18th via Erste Theke Tonträger.
Children’s Crusade – Man-Gun
A Duty-Dance With Death releases November 15th.
Das Nest – The Nest
The restless Berlin post punk scene delivers yet another high-class artifact - brought to us by Cincinnati, Ohio specialists Future Shock Recordings - on which they masterfully balance a good deal of dark abysses and atmospheric expanse against an endless succession of concentrated, precise impacts. On one hand, this stuff unmistakably carries the signature of the Berlin scene and groups like Pigeon, Glaas, Clock Of Time, Pretty Hurts, Kalte Hand and Liiek. Yet, i also sense a close kinship to such anarcho-influenced US groups like Kaleidoscope, Straw Man Army and Fantasma, the recent LP of british punks Subdued, Sydney's Negative Gears... and a bit of Criminal Code maybe? Anyway, this is some first rate shit right here!
Album-Stream →Purp – The Little Brainwash Simulation
More brainfuck and brain fog than brainwash, this kinda baffling new EP by italian gentleman Leonardo Carlacchiani aka Purp, an immersive flood of Lo-Fi DIY noise and psychedelia hellbent of clouding and overwhelming, rather than breaking, your headspace. The opener Mind Space comes across like the anthemic folk-y power pop of Vaguess being transplanted into the blown-out fuzz pop context of fellow italians Mustard/Metal Guru or of Dadgad's most recent EP, then morphing towards a more relaxed midtempo indie rocker reminiscent of Treehouse or early Tape/Off in Labyrinthorama. Reminder Demons With Gufo Mangia Sale is pure psyched-out space blues abandon. Astral Angel sounds a bit like early Pixies slowed down to a depressing crawl with a distinct taste of '90s Chokebore. Ladybug's Ballata With Bobby Chombo pulls a kind of No-Fi My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. pastiche through a psychedelic Flying Saucer Attack meatgrinder, followed by I-Ching sorta bridging the gap between early Japandroids and late 2000s / early 2010s noise-/fuzz pop shredders á la No Age, Wavves and Male Bonding.
Album-Stream →Achterlicht – Demo III
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.
Album-Stream →The Shield – 24
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.
Cold Summer – Altlasten
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 →The Lipschitz – Interestingly
Plinth releases October 11th via Company Businesses.
Why Bother? – (I’m Gonna) Pin it on You
Hey, At Least You're Not Me releases October 18th via Feel It Records.
Faux Départ – Si Tu Disparais
Faux Départ releases October 15th via Hidden Bay Records.