Loobs - Hour By Hour

Word To The Wise re­leas­es Au­gust 26th via Poi­son City Records.

The Uglies - Life Is Boring

Plan­et Uglies re­leas­es Oc­to­ber 14th.

Thee Khai Aehm - Parrier

A new dun­geon punk ar­ti­fact from Karl­sruhe, Ger­many. In con­trast to the bulk of this young micro-genre's acts, Thee Khai Aehm don't in­cor­po­rate a whole lot of old­school met­al in­flu­ences, rather ap­proach­ing the musty dun­geon aes­thet­ic from a dis­tinct psych-/acid rock an­gle, kin­da like a mix be­tween clas­sic Oh Sees, Strange At­trac­tor and… Salamirecorder, maybe? Al­ways play­ful, most­ly weird, some­times epic and pre­sent­ed with a mud­dy, dusty pro­duc­tion aes­thet­ic as if these songs haven't been ex­posed to day­light and oxy­gen for cen­turies.

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Erste Hilfe - Erste Hilfe

Awe­some synth-/ elec­tro punk shit from Berlin that kin­da plays out like a cu­ri­ous mix of Pisse, Puff! or the most re­cent, elec­tro-heavy Schi­ach EP. Fur­ther you might draw com­par­isons to Spy­roids, Heavy Met­al as well as old synth punk sta­ples á la Scream­ers, Ner­vous Gen­der. Klick­farm in par­tic­u­lar might have tak­en some cues from the Vis­i­tors' clas­sic rip­per Elec­tric Heat as well.

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Coke Asian - Kegel Excess

The most un­ex­pect­ed gem of this week comes from a Paris group and ap­par­ent­ly has al­ready been record­ed in 2018. This is a puz­zling and over­whelm­ing burst of chaot­ic noise crude­ly wedged in­be­tween the edges of garage punk, KBD-style odd­i­ties and the weird­er fringes of ear­ly 80s hard­core punk. The open­er VVV evokes a vibe kin­da like a mix be­tween fel­low french­men Sub­tle Turn­hips and US hard­core odd­balls Landown­er while Moose Lodge con­jures up the lega­cy of, among oth­ers, pro­to noise rock­ers of the Flip­per, Bro­ken Tal­ent or Fun­gus Brains cal­iber. City Blocks unites the qual­i­ties of Bad Brains and MC5 in a neat lit­tle pack­age. Oth­er times, they evoke The Men­tal­ly Ill or kin­da bridge the gap be­tween Neos and Neo Neos while nu­mer­ous more re­cent groups á la To­tal Sham, Liq­uid As­sets, Launch­er, Cri­sis Man, Frea­kees or Li­po­suc­tion aren't too far off ei­ther at one point or an­oth­er. This shit is as unique as it's prim­i­tive and most­ly un­pre­dictable, more than once de­fy­ing any at­tempt at cat­e­go­riza­tion.

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Curleys - Curleys

An­oth­er prim­i­tive blast of no-bul­ll­shit hard­core-in­fused garage punk by a group kin­da pre­des­tined to get re­leased on To­tal Punk Records, con­jur­ing up on­ly the most pri­mal and chaot­ic ten­den­cies of acts like Cri­sis Man, Liq­uid As­sets, Launch­er, Mys­tic Inane, Fried Egg… and maybe a slight hint of The Men­tal­ly Ill on top?

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Exwhite & The Gobs - Split

Ex­cel­lent shit via Tur­bod­is­cos. Leipzig/​Berlin group Exwhite shouldn't need an in­tro­duc­tion at this point, hav­ing blast­ed a re­spectable hole in the floor with their re­cent Estray EP. Their side to this kick­ass lit­tle EP won't dis­ap­point ei­ther as they de­liv­er two com­par­a­tive­ly straight-ahead, no-frills garage punk smash­ers.
No less ex­cit­ing are the tracks by Olympia, Wash­ing­ton synth-/garage punk act The Gobs who've al­ready been mak­ing waves with a whole shit­load of blown-out lo-fi de­mo re­leas­es. Here we get to wit­ness them in some­thing ap­proach­ing prop­er mid-fi qual­i­ty for the first time. Sounds fuck­ing awe­some too, who would've thought?

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Gluer - The Room

Gluer re­leas­es Au­gust 19th via Push My But­tons & Svart Ljud.

Stranded - Quick Fix

We Are re­leas­es Au­gust 19th via In­ter­cep­tor Edi­tions /​ Ver­lag von We­gen.