The Mute Servants - The Mute Servants

This dude from Wat­ford, UK does a lot of things wrong here and i to­tal­ly fuck­ing love it. You know, like… squeez­ing 8 songs, 12 min­utes of fuzzed out garage rock on a 7" and have that thing spin at 33 RPM for ex­tra neg­a­tive fi­deli­ty. Al­so, who needs so­phis­ti­ca­tion and nu­ance in their mu­sic if we can sim­ply have every­thing be very, very loud at all times? Why write a song us­ing three chords if we can do it with just one? Yeah, don't ex­pect any­thing too smart about this EP but the sheer sham­bol­ic in­ten­si­ty makes up for it per­fect­ly. At some points this sounds like an MC5 wor­ship­ping in­car­na­tion of ear­ly The Men clash­ing with De­struc­tion Unit while more re­cent groups like Hamer and Su­per-X aren't too far off ei­ther.

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Turbogoblin RX - Mammon Machine

A cute 'lil hap­py pill of an EP by some Ade­laide dude, span­ning a quite ver­sa­tile range of garage punk made up of bits and pieces rem­i­nis­cent of acts like Strange At­trac­tor, S.B.F., Use­less Eaters, R.M.F.C. as well as a very slight hint of Ura­ni­um Club… all of that gets com­pact­ed in­to five as­s­kick­ing gems plus in­ter­ludes.

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Nylon & Operants - Split

A kick­ass new split EP com­bin­ing the forces of two New Jer­sey groups i wasn't aware of be­fore. Ny­lon strike all the right chords with me by way of a garage-/post punk hy­brid sound rough­ly in the neigh­bor­hood of ear­ly Teenanger, Pub­lic Eye, Vin­tage Crop and Mar­bled Eye while Op­er­ants play things a bit more straight, first set­ting off a garage banger of the Ex-Cult, Civic, The Liv­ing Eyes or Sauna Youth va­ri­ety, fol­lowed up by a slight­ly more post punk-lean­ing, synth-heavy track giv­ing off a strong­ly muteant smell.

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Mateo Manic - Time Don't Matter In Dark Matter

Garage-/synth-/elec­tro punk from Cleve­land, Ohio that carves out its own lit­tle place in the cur­rent land­scape of sim­i­lar groups by way of a cer­tain psy­che­del­ic haze, kin­da like a mix be­tween The Spits, Sil­i­con Heart­beat and Smirk, ob­served through some dense Chrome- or Met­al Ur­bain-es­que fog. Or you might de­scribe it as some kind of garage punk in­car­na­tion of Murderer's hal­lu­cino­genic cow­punk night­marescapes.

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Liquid Lunch - Come Again

This Min­neapo­lis group's de­but EP de­liv­ers four first-rate bangers made up of medi­um-fi­deli­ty DIY garage punk con­sis­tent­ly wan­der­ing on the genre's weird­er side and thus in the good com­pa­ny of groups like Sa­tan­ic To­gas, Alien Nose­job, Re­search Re­ac­tor Corp., R.M.F.C. or Erik Ner­vous.

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Repulsion Switch - Demo 2021

A kick­ass lit­tle de­mo from some Buenos Aires group or per­son, stand­ing with one foot in the con­tem­po­rary pud­dle of lock­down-in­duced DIY garage punk, the oth­er one im­mersed deep in­to lay­ers of ear­ly eight­ies hard­core punk with a lit­tle bit of that cer­tain KBD-style grime on top. Sim­ple, eco­nom­ic and ef­fec­tive.

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Finale - 225 o​.​p​.​m​.

One of Spain's best kept se­crets has fi­nal­ly made it in­to the garage punk big league as ev­i­denced by their new 7" on Sloven­ly Record­ings, con­tain­ing what is with­out doubt their strongest set of tunes yet, con­fi­dent and catchy as fuck while keep­ing their dis­tinct weirdo edge in­tact, find­ing a per­fect mid­dle ground be­tween the par­tic­u­lar ec­cen­tric­i­ties of acts like Erik Ner­vous, Re­al­i­ty Group, R.M.F.C. or Neo Neos.

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Stalled Minds - Shades

It's been a whop­ping five years since this Paris group's de­but EP but the wait has paid off hand­some­ly on their first full length re­lease, de­liv­er­ing an end­less stream of high-oc­tane melod­ic (garage-)punk smash­ers in the vein of groups like Cheap Whine, Short Days, Red Dons and Telecult… you might al­so sense a hint of Marked Men, Roy­al Headache or The Ther­mals. In a few in­stances, the song­writ­ing doesn't quite cut it and that's when they veer dager­ous­ly close to shal­low pop punk ter­ri­to­ry. How­ev­er, when they hit, they hit hard and even man­age to evoke a sub­tle retro 60s pow­er pop vibe along the way.

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Metdog - Certified Lover Dog

Metdog's fourth ex­tend­ed play is yet an­oth­er trea­sure trove of play­ful and easy­go­ing garage punk… let's not talk about eggs again here. Ad­mir­ers of R.M.F.C., Re­search Re­ac­tor Corp. or Sa­tan­ic To­gas will aprove of this, just as i'm gonna make an ex­cep­tion here and give my full ap­proval for the use of au­to-tune or vocoder or what­ev­er that shit in the clos­ing track is… fuck­ing art, i guess.

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Pinch Points - Reasons To Be Anxious /​ Boy

Pinch Points are now join­ing the Ex­plod­ing In Sound ros­ter, eh? Not the most ob­vi­ous choice i'd say but who cares… as long as they're gonna stay as ra­zor sharp as on their lat­est 7", once again com­ing across like a more straight­for­ward Re­al­i­ty Group or a no-bull­shit vari­ant of Ura­ni­um Club.