3D & The Holograms - 3D & The Holograms

A new Warttman Inc. re­lease by a group made up of some of the usu­al sus­pects known from bands such as Re­search Re­ac­tor Corp., Sa­tan­ic To­gas and The Gobs, so you al­ready kin­da know what to ex­pect. Need­less to say, this is some glo­ri­ous­ly dumb and rip­pin' shit.

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Cherry Cheeks - Cherry Cheeks

Orlando's Cher­ry Cheeks aka some dude by the name Kyle Harms has al­ready made some waves last year with a string of four in­creas­ing­ly awe­some EPs, yet his de­but full length on To­tal Punk feels a bit un­ex­pect­ed as it, for the most part, de­parts from the heav­i­ly synth-based garage- and pow­er pop sound of its pre­de­ces­sors for a some­what more con­ven­tion­al, gui­tar-cen­tric DIY garage punk aes­thet­ic. That cer­tain­ly doesn't mean these new songs were lack­ing any of the ear­li­er re­leas­es' thrills - this shit's a rather in­ven­tive and un­pre­dictable af­fair once again, quirky and catchy as fuck, bear­ing some sim­i­lar­i­tiy to acts like Freak Genes, Pow­er­plant or Set-Top Box.

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Big Bopper - New Mutations

Doesn't look like these tex­ans are gonna run out of tunes any­time soon, hav­ing just cranked out their sec­ond al­bum over the course of just a few months. Thank­ful­ly the mix is a bit less tin­ni­tus-in­duc­ing this time while the new songs seam­less­ly con­tin­ue the won­der­ful chaos Big Bop­per es­tab­lished eari­er this year, made up of post- and garage punk, noise- and math rock el­e­ments rough­ly in the vein of Pat­ti, Rolex, Cutie, Mys­tic Inane or Brandy, plus some traces of ear­ly Min­ute­men.

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Smirk - Smirk

In an act of crim­i­nal neg­li­gence i some­how failed to post any of the pre­vi­ous EPs by Smirk, the so­lo Project of Nick Vic­ario whose oth­er groups Pub­lic Eye, Cri­sis Man and Ce­men­to might ring a bell with reg­u­lar vis­i­tors of this blog. Af­ter both EPs were com­piled in­to an LP by Drunk­en Sailor Records ear­li­er this year, we al­ready get to en­joy his newest ex­tend­ed play via To­tal Punk /​ Iron Lung Records on which his ul­tra laid-back though nev­er sleepy take on sam­ple-backed garage punk sounds the most ma­ture yet, more to the point and catch­i­er than ever be­fore.

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Dudd Dilemma - Figure It Out /​ Dream Dilemma

Per­fect­ly ex­hil­er­at­ing shit, the first crumbs of noise we get from some group or project that might or might not be based in Los An­ge­les. The first two tracks de­liv­er a fla­vor of elec­tri­cal­ly dri­ven garage punk tak­ing cues from acts like Mononeg­a­tives, Use­less Eaters, Pow­er­plant, RRC or Alien Nose­job while the clos­ing track ups the weird­ness con­sid­er­ably, go­ing all-in on pure synth punk may­hem.

AJ Cortes and The Burglars - Demo

Now that's what i call kid­punk… It's the most heart­warm­ing beau­ti­ful kick­ass thing i've heard in a while and i'm way too soft to with­stand that kind of shit any­way. Nuff said.

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The Q-Tips - There Are Those Who Drill Violently​!​

It on­ly took them like… twelve years but fi­nal­ly the Mu­nich duo has re­leased their sec­ond 7" via Sloven­ly Record­ings and it's an ir­re­sistable blast of garage- and elec­tro punk with echoes of The Spits and Stal­ins Of Sound, plus an un­like­ly touch of Big Black in the high­ly com­bustible open­ing track Shut Your Face.

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Imploders - Imploders

In case you like your hard­core punk wild, catchy and in­no­cent like it's 1981 on the US west coast… there's your new jam as it won't get much more 1981 than this Toron­to group's de­but EP. These five ridicu­lous­ly ap­peal­ing tunes don't sound anachro­nis­tic in the slight­est though. Rather, with their time­less garage and KBD vibes, they fit in just as well with con­tem­po­rary groups á la Launch­er, Frea­kees, Liq­uid As­sets or Ce­ment Shoes.

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Tommy Cossack - Tommy Cossack

With this Lon­don dude's de­but tape hav­ing been such an in­cred­i­bly fun ride, its fol­low-up - a hot mess made up of re­worked/re­mas­tered/re-heat­ed old­er demos and a pair of new tracks - sure feels a bit un­fo­cused in di­rect com­par­i­son, yet still man­ages to kick plen­ty of ass on its own. An­oth­er adorable batch of quirky DIY garage punk that, de­spite its british ori­gin, has a pre­dom­i­nant­ly aus­tralian feel to it with groups like Set-Top Box, R.M.F.C. and Sa­tan­ic To­gas com­ing to mind as well as the un­avoid­able Ausmuteants/​Alien Nose­job, a touch of Use­less Eaters.

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Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons - Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons

A Cleve­land, Ohio group presents a rough and dis­so­nant mix of noise rock and post punk with a sharp garage edge on their first EP which, in the cur­rent mu­sic land­scape, po­si­tions them rough­ly in­be­tween such Groups as The Cow­boy, Spray Paint, Flat Worms and Plax, at times sup­ple­ment­ed with a cer­tain Flip­per vibe.

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