Fruited Planes – So You Say
Dismal Nitch releases September 4th via Dot Dash Sounds.
The Tangees – Monster Trucks
Shotgun releases September 25th.
Es War Mord – 1000 Jahre
Frühling der Verräter releases September 18th via Sabotage Records.
Losses – Life-Like
Life-Like releases August 28th via Stanze Fredde Records.
Recollection – Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive Thoughts releases August 28th via Daze.
Fast Johnny and The Slow Burners – Cold World
Cool Sorcery – WAAAASPS
Moyamoya – Hol Newland
Verspannungskassette #110 (C-60)
Tracklist
Power Pants We're Only Human
Miniskirt Liar's Club
Constant Insult City's Girls
United Stare I've Been Wronged
Yeps Bad Luck No Luck
Snarewaves On The Up
AUT! DEVO-lution Of An Egg
Pitsss Exercise
OBI Strip New A.I O.S
Public Domain D.S.L.
The UTI’s Family First
Scaphism Orange overalls
Cry Cyclops Fishes and Bread
The Sniffles Lightning Rod
Sentence Pest
Jug Bug Frog
Youth Liberation Front At Any Cost
God Plutonium Plug Me In
Funeral Service Pleas of the Mouth
Tracklist
Sweet Cream Ladies To Be You
Cuticles Geoffery Palmer
Mesh Atrophy
Society No Society
Mop Mj2x
Leche I’m Gonna Try Crack
Cel Ray Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Sniffany & The Nits Best of Luck
Haro Vertiges
Dog Date And Then What
Temporary Curse Monochrome
Fifa Kid Son Bombas
Baby Muffler I Hate You
Apéro Tribute To Eels
Kobe Thomas Crying and Dyin'
Society – Reign Of Flies
Philadelphia's Sims Hardin aka Society probably doesn't need an introduction here after the splashes he made with the deliciously scrappy 2022 EP All Flies Go To Hell, whose rough proto punk-ish energy subsequently got channeled into a more concrete, fleshed out art punk sound on 2024's brilliant Social Flies cassette, to which Reign Of Flies now feels like a direct sequel, but not without some clear refinements and growth along the way, setting this record apart with a more pronounced post punk-ish vibe to these tunes and a tighter grip on his catchy hooks than ever before. Yeah this is another must-have for connoisseurs of rough, artsy and eccentric DIY punk oddities.
Album-Stream →Leche – Domestic Economic Terrorism
The modern-day cowcore veterans from Austin, Texas return just a year after their quite good but also a bit too long and somewhat disjointed previous dose of pure chaos that was the Miracle Whip-It LP on Digital Hotdogs. This new EP now is in a way the exact opposite of that, their most condensed and coherent record so far with all the excess fat removed, eight minutes of super-dense excellence bursting at the seams from an abundance of clever ideas, heavy duty hooks and melodies in a massive spell of heavily Dicks-informed insanity.
Album-Stream →Haro – Demo
Bordeaux, the wine-producing capital of France honestly doesn't have shit on, like, our local beer hotspots of Hansa, North Rhine-Westphalia and Karlskrone, southern Aldi but i gotta admit they've had some neat bands there over the years like Videodrome and Black Bug from earlier days or Distance more recently. But anyway, Haro in some aspects kinda fit an established template of french post punk / postcore groups of the Youth Avoiders and Nightwatchers ilk, although they completely forgo the subgenre's fashionable Oi! elements of late in exchange for a more elaborate and epic sound cleaverly constructed into widescreen melodramas that totally hold their own in that sector and i guess it's that scope that prompted some trusted authority in the field of bands that kinda sound like Coldplay to tell me this band kinda sounds like Coldplay in the EP's opening tune so now i think i've gotta check out these Coldplay dudes, they must be a swell band if true!
Album-Stream →Apéro – Dragons & Eels
It hasn't been a massive music week otherwise but at least it's been a decent one for groups whose name ends in -ro which make up a whopping 50% of this week's blog output. Apéro from Hamburg, Germany already left a thoroughly convincing impression with their debut EP Cold Drinks, Cool Snacks last year and their newest EP continues in the same vein of moderately egg-ish, catchy-ass garage- and synth punk, the first two tunes being perfectly cromulent if maybe a bit routine examples in their own right, though it's the second half where this record really comes alive with a barrage of timeless power pop hooks that among other things kinda channel some older Sheer Mag energy.
Album-Stream →The Losers – Reaper
Somebody Kill Me releases September 18th via Poison Vision Records.