Modern Rituals - The Bull Never Wins
This Is The History releases March 20th via Holy Roar Records.
Shell Of A Shell - Knock
Away Team releases February 28th via Exploding In Sound Records.
Wasted Shirt - Double The Dream
Fungus II releases February 28th via Famous Class.
Videodrome - Video Store
Live Fast! Die Like David Carradine releases February 27th via Le Turc Mecanique.
Raspberry Bulbs - Doggerel
Before The Age Of Mirrors releases February 21st via Relapse Records.
Dead Cells - Bell
I releases February 15th via Erste Theke Tonträger.
Video Daughters - Shakedown
Cut Back releases January 31st via Already Dead Tapes and Records.
The Resource Network & Big Hog - Split 7"
This already marks the second time these two bands from Indianapolis are pooling their, um… resources for a split release - this time it's a 7" on Goodbye Boozy Records. Not only is the recording quality a little bit less rough than last time; both bands have also significantly diversified their musical vocabulary.
The Resource Network alternate between smartypants garage punk of the Uranium Club & Yammerer variety, a post punk/-core thingy you could imagine as a weird mix of Rites Of Spring and early Slovenly, and finally a straight punk rocker radiating a Launcher-style KBD Vibe.
Quite a bit of the latter you can also find on Big Hog's side and there's less of a hardcore edge to their new songs - instead you'll find a wild post punk ride you might describe as Patti-meet-early-Minutemen, surrounded by two blasts of noise punk resembling what Lumpy & The Dumpers could have sounded like on some sort of sludge/doom trip.
B.E.E.F. 39X - Man-Simulator 5
At first listen, i can't help but think of the texan (neo) no wave/chaotic noise rock connection around bands like Flesh Narc, Gay Cum Daddies and a few other projects sharing much of the same personnel. However, this band is from Philadelphia, making any association with those rather unlikely. Also, on closer inspection, their sound and songs come across a lot more structured, compared with the kinda semi-improvised feel of the Denton scene's output. Soundwise, this is somewhat less in the no wave camp, leaning more into the noise rock side of things and now that i'm thinking of it… I also see quite some similarities to their geographically much closer New York contemporaries Spray Paint and Big Neck Police, as well as a hint of canadian noise punks Sopcans.
Album-Stream →Warm Exit - Demo
On their demo, Brussels outfit Warm Exit come up with a flawless little dose of synth-enhanced garage punk, alternately reminding me of contemporary genre powerhouses like Ausmuteants, Dumb, Erik Nervous or Powerplant.
