Mitraille - Mitraille

The Bel­gian garage punks' first full length re­lease is hands down their strongest ef­fort so far, a bot­tom­less well of de­ment­ed fun some­where in­be­tween more straight­for­ward garage fare á la Sick Thoughts, Shit­ty Life, Dadar and the ever-so-slight­ly more eleborate/​artsy Ex-Cult, Tyvek or Shark Toys va­ri­ety.

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L'appel Du Vide - Abwärtsspirale

An ex­cel­lent dis­patch from the Chem­nitz post punk scene most­ly evok­ing com­par­isons to Berlin based acts á la Diät, Pi­geon or Pret­ty Hurts, al­though you might al­so find some sem­blance of Stuttgart's Karies in there. The clear high­lights on here are the al­most bal­ladesque songs Delir­i­um and Das Pro­gramm, reach­ing melod­ic heights akin to the very best of Sieve­head, Pu­ri­tans or the most re­cent Crim­i­nal Code LP.

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Beta Máximo - Spain Vice

Span­ish garage pop­pers Be­ta Máx­i­mo al­ready left a rather pos­i­tive im­pres­sion on me with their cou­ple of fair­ly re­cent EPs but with this one, they're fi­nal­ly nail­ing it if you ask me, strik­ing a per­fect bal­ance be­tween snap­py garage punk and surf-in­fused pow­er pop - kin­da like a some­what less eggy, less lo-fi in­car­na­tion of Barcelona group Prison Af­fair.

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Flexï - Nothing

The sec­ond ex­tend­ed play by this New York group is a new load of high­ly con­cen­trat­ed post punk bliss, sure to en­er­gize ad­mir­ers of pow­er­house acts such as Rank/​Xerox, Mar­bled Eye, Nag, Neg­a­tive Space, Know­so or ear­ly In­sti­tute. There al­so ap­pears to be a slight noise rock edge at play here, kin­da re­mind­ing me of shit like Brandy or Cutie.

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Fen Fen - 3 Songs

The first few noisy ar­ti­facts of this De­troit group - a kick­ass EP's worth of stand­alone tracks un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly dumped on their band­camp page - span a gamut evok­ing some of the best ref­er­ences on the in­ter­sec­tion of garage punk and post­core, rang­ing from straight­for­ward garage R'n'R acts á la Sick Thoughts, ear­ly Video & Teenanger, to the ex­plo­sive genre bas­tards of Cri­sis Man, As­cot Stab­ber and Flow­ers Of Evil, not to men­tion some un­mis­tak­able Hot Snakes kind of vibe all the way through.

Swordbreaker - Demo

A new en­try in­to the young dun­geon punk mi­cro­genre com­ing our way from me­dieval Utrecht. That means com­pe­tent new fod­der for con­nois­seurs of D&D-savy im­agery and themes, of heavy ar­mor and blunt weapons as well as a small but ex­pand­ing round­table of skull­crush­ers á la Poi­son Ruïn, Bloody Keep, Weenog, Steröid or who­ev­er else has re­cent­ly been busy unit­ing the aes­thet­ics of garage punk with those of old­school black- and/​or su­per-an­cient "heavy" met­al.

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Verspannungskassette #35 (C-90)

Ghost Beef 2023
Spread Joy Spa Sched­ule
Scab Breath Sniff­ing Glue
Check­point Gravedig­ger
Li­on Coun­try Fer­rari Cow­boy Hat
Die TV Con­so­nants
Sex Mex Elec­tric Chair
Prison Af­fair Big Bot­tom Ba­by
Lam­ic­tal Doc­tor Says
Gluer I Lost…
Or­ren­do Sub­ot­nik Stop­pa
Judy and the Jerks Bu­ford
Zhoop TMNT
Every­one Is Alone Some­times I Am A Field Of Beans
Re­mote Con­trol Every­one Is The Same

Do­goloko Tus Ami­gos
Porn­scars Blur­ring The Lines
Cri­sis Man Po­lice In­jus­tice
Cuir Prenons De La Drogue
Bil­liam Clive
Con­Sec Quit or Die
Man­ic Ride Nev­er Go­ing Back
Warthog Ter­res­tri­al Progress
Ster­ile Mind Turns To Ash
Di­all Drought
Pyrex Touch
No­Touch How Many?
Clin­ic Split
Sword­break­er Fu­ri­ous Charge

Ner­vous Trig­gers Beach Co­ma
The Dan­ger­men Wrong Train Home
Skid City Dou­ble Deuce
Big Cream Shop­ping List
Malflo­ra Can
Ex Par­ents Dis­ease Mag­net
Bul­let Brains Mr. Cru­ci­fix
Lim­i­nal The House Par­ty
Bull­shit De­tec­tor They Hate Us
Feed Caf­feine Freak

Cos­mit Cost of Breath­ing
Mat­ty Grace I'm Side­ways
Night Court Shit­ty Con­fi­den­tial
Mick Trou­ble A Wast­ed Light
Fa­mous Logs in His­to­ry All Fu­ture Luxe
Mir­a­cle Debt Lurk­ing To­ward
.avi Gafas rosas
Gy­rate Over & Over
L' ap­pel Du Vide Delir­i­um

TV Dust - Falling

It's Clear re­leas­es June 24th via Mape Death Records.

Healees - In Your Cave

Healees re­leas­es June 17th via Hid­den Bay Records.

Woodstock '99 - La Casa De Fuck You

Su­per Grem­lin re­leas­es May 27th via Sor­ry State Records.