Batpiss – Time
There's A Place In My Mind Where We All Burn Alive releases sometime this year via Poison City Records.
Festa Del Perdono – Corpo Di Smeraldo
Società Mentale releases June 6th via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos
Verspannungskassette #74 (2x C-60)
Too much cool new shit, that's my favorite luxury problem and it's what the past few weeks had in store, so a C-90 won't suffice this time. That, and also i totally had to add a ten-minute tune to the tracklist because why the fuck not? Dial A for fuzzed-out depravity and general mayhem. B for egg-ish dementia, quirky and forbidden fun and games for the whole family. C for darkness, death and despair. D for some beeps & bloops, followed by hits, hooks and melodies.
Favoured State That's Life
Homeless Cadaver Cadaviar
208 Tantrum
Fulmine Randagio
Fen Fen Dumb
Baghed LKWO
Grand Final Boomtown
Yobs Shitty Eye
Googon Electrodildonics
The Cut-Ups Chenango County Fair
Solvent No Recourse
Norms Struktúra Kultúra
Rouge Paint It Red
Total Sham Keep It Rollin'
Coyote Annoying Dickhead
Purgatorio Una Broma
Personal Damage Cull the Herd
Future of Despair Remnants
Jimsobbins Tv Society
Tiffany Junkfood
So Cow Summer Is Icumen In Again
Cindy7 Wall
The Dogs We Are The Dogs
Billiam I Was A Teenage RNG Freak
Shawnis and The Shimmers Queer Planet
Goblin Daycare Liar, Liar
D.I.M La conduite
Egg Idiot Barf Life
Kapow! KAPOW!
Music For Microwaves Piracy
Tommy Cossack & The Degenerators Bed Sores
Trashdog neUtron danS ShoT-gun wee
Nervous Tick and The Zipper Lips Realign my Mind
Videoflip Pas de mon monde
Elektrokohle I Wanna Cry
Nag Insert A Thought
Monda Hot Tag
Síntesis Vacaciones en Tel Aviv
Whiphouse Lie Cheat Steal Repeat
Girls In Synthesis Picking Things Out Of The Air
DBR Faulty
Dead Finks Baton
S:Bahn You Could Be Mine
Machiavellian Art Fear of The Outside World / Crisis
Paulo Vicious Eu Fico Eu Morro
Thyroids Fake Estate
Nick Normal Mixed Lettuces 1&2
Hyperdog Hole
Powerband Death Machine
Cherry Cheeks Cruel Bore
Vacation Psychic Gasoline
Silicone Values Stuck on Repeat
Ultra Lights Nostalgia
Bluff City Vice Big City Livin
Night Court 1000000th Song
The Dumpies Bisexual Hedgefund Manager
The Wesleys Make It My Way
Machiavellian Art – Population Control
This Walsall, UK group comes at us with an intentionally overpowering, uncompromising and maximally nasty clump of dissonant, kinda monotonous noise bridging the gap between only the most confrontative fringes of post punk, noise rock and postcore. Interestingly, almost all of the comparisons i can come up with right now already date a few years back, reminding me of how much of an unexpectedly fertile decade the 2010s were for unwieldy noise rock fare, a genre i struggle to find much excitement in, looking at the current landscape. This record takes me right back there, to the genre's second golden era of groups such as early Metz, USA Nails, Keepers, Overtime, Death Panels, Greys, Vangas, Tunic or John (timestwo). Well, at least a couple of these are still around. Then again, the thick veil of constant, dissonant blown-out noise texture these songs stay cloaked in at all times, somewhat reminds me of the short-lived US post punk sensation Dasher, while the cacophonous saxophone parts call to mind Nearly Dead and the kinda obscure australian 1980s post punk act Fungus Brains or, whenever they add some melodic overtones like in Crime, i can even sense a bit of australian post punk / proto-noise rock powerhouse X.
Album-Stream →Monda – Stiff Jumbo
The newest of a, to be perfectly honest, fucking inpenetrable amount of releases which have accumulated on this Totowa, New Jersey group's bandcamp page over the past few years, delivers a pure spectacle of short and catchy little tunes with a maximum length of exactly one minute, firing off fourty tracks inbetween the coordinates of garage punk, power pop, oldschool indie rock and fuzz punk in well under half an hour. The whole thing makes me think of a couple of 1980s DIY punk and indie rock landmarks like the early works of Guided By Voices, Fastbacks and M.O.T.O. just as much as a couple more recent bands like Booji Boys, Print Head, Vaguess and Datenight.
Album-Stream →DBR – DBR
Berlin post punk solo act DBR has already been sticking around for a bit and put out a whole bunch of EPs along the way, first under the name Dee Bee Rich, later shortened to the acronym DBR. His newest cassette via Turbo Discos is easily his most accomplished and versatile creation in a while, equipping the fairly minimalist, understated approach his more recent work has gradually morphed into with a whole new sense of melody, elegance and catchyness, while still coming across quirky, playful and odd as fuck.
Album-Stream →Thyroids – Toppings and Droppings
Five excellent new bursts of catchy, simple and mimimalist synth punk is what we get on the newest EP of this Dallas, Texas group. Though the title of the opening track Q:Where? A: On The Square! kind of evokes associations of Devo, i'd say actually this shit sounds a lot closer to some of the more underground acts of the '70s and '80s á la Minimal Man, Nervous Gender, Screamers, Units, Primitive Calculators or Visitors, while in the current scene you might also compare them to groups such as Victor, O-D-EX, Lost Packages and Freak Genes.
Album-Stream →Whiphouse – Demo
Atlanta's post punk scene strikes again! This group appears to have at least one (ex-?) member of Predator on board, whose sound this stuff certainly bears some resemblence to, as well as the genre's other quite obvious local mainstay, Nag. Whiphouse choose to label themselves as a death rock group and indeed, what (ever so slightly, though) differentiates this group from the aforementioned acts is a more pronounced classic goth rock vibe and a more simplistic approach to songwriting and arrangements. What can i say, nothing wrong with that. This shit works!
Album-Stream →Nick Normal – Mixed Lettuces 1&2
Mock Tudors – Hair Of The Dog
Good Drinkin' Times releases July 30th.
Bed Maker – Ballad of Tokitae
Bed Maker releases May 31st via Dischord Records.
Teen Cobra – The Bank Tellers Daughter
Buzzkill releases June 6th via Big Neck Records.
Dead Finks – Eve Of Ascension
On their third LP, coming to our shores via Sydney label Urge Records, the Berlin post punk duo consisting of Erin Violet and former Trust Punks vocalist Joseph Thomas sees them dialing down the folk-ish leanings a bit in favor of a slightly darker, heavier sound while retaining all of that overbearing sense of melancholy and the song-focused qualities that already had the previous records towering way above the bulk of the genre, prompting exclusively flattering comparisons to acts such as Public Interest, Marbled Eye, Waste Man, Tube Alloys, Corker, Glittering insects, Public Eye, Kitchen's Floor, VR Sex and Mothers Milk.
Album-Stream →Gee Tee – Prehistoric Chrome
The Sydney garage-/eggpunk powerhouse's newest record is actually more of a collection of scraps, demos, odds and ends left on the cutting room floor over the years but... damn! If this shit here represents Gee Tee's b-material, i'm gladly gonna eat up whatever c-list shit they've got lingering in the archives too. This is a brilliant record from start to finish and mandatory listening for any discerning connoisseur of catchy goodness in the realms of garage punk, fuzz- and power pop, all killer no filler!
Album-Stream →Nag – Fear
Atlanta post punk group Nag never ceased to be an uncompromising, abrasive force with no signs of slowing down anytime soon, maybe with the minor caveat of their newest cassette almost sounding somewhat friendly and approachable in direct comparison to their extra-grim previous LP Human Coward Coyote, as every song on here has some kind of catchy hook at its core, their song constructs holding a perfect balance between their trademark spiky, rigid oldschool minimalism and just the right amount of straightforward, satisfying ear candy.
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