There’s nothing particularly smart or new about this record to tell you, yet there’s plenty of enjoyment to get out of this oldschool garage punk racket, simple and effective, being pulled off by some dude out of Rennes, France. On the genre map, you might locate this shit somewhere in the neighborhood of bands like The Spits, Buck Biloxi, Sick Thoughts, Die TV, Erik Nervous, Stalins Of Sound, Giorgio Murderer and Bart And The Brats.
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It took the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania group a few years to tie up the loose ends and finish the production of this LP but here it finally is, giving us more of their synth-, garage- and post punk that will once again elicit comparisons to Digital Leather – especially the similarity of the singer’s voice to DL’s Shawn Foree always strikes me as uncanny – although Deletions at this point sound more like a cruder, yet simultaneously pretty straightforward and catchy-as-fuck version of that. In the second half things lean heavier towards the post punk, slightly goth end of things, bearing some similarity to, say, Powerplant, Isotope Soap, Why Bother? or early The Faint as well as some flourishes of Devo and Desparate Bicycles… even a touch of Morricone in Diffuse and Confuse. Not every single effort on here pays off equally well but when they hit the spot, they do it with bravado.
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…now that’s kind of an insane move, dumping four to six LPs worth of material in a single album on bandcamp. Didn’t see that coming at all, good thing we like insane shit here at 12XU HQ. With this album the group from Moffat Beach, Australia seriously earned the title “The Guided by Voices of space egg punk”. Amazingly, most of this stuff is pretty freakin’ awesome too, although a fair bit of fat and redundancy sure could’ve been trimmed off this 2-hour release for an even stronger 80-minute album to emerge in the process. Their high egg-factor mixture of Psychedelic-/Space Rock, Post- and Garage Punk might draw comparisons to the likes of Mononegatives, Neo Neos, Liquids, The Gobs, Set-Top Box, Print Head or Useless Eaters in its more high-energy moments while in the more relaxed and/or downbeat songs, groups like Die TV, Cool Sorcery, Snooper might come to mind or even an extra Lo-Fi version of the Woolen Men!
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Following up on their already quite awesome 2019 demo, Austin group Dregs shift their sound a good bit away from a more garage- and fuzz punk leaning sound, further towards a harder to pin-down mix of influences on the fringes of 80s-to-mid-90s hard- and postcore, among others suggesting the likes of X (US), Dicks or Flipper at some points, postcore groups like Gray Matter or Drive Like Jehu at others while more recent bands like Vexx, Cel Ray, Gen Pop or Little Ugly Girls wouldn’t sound too far off either.
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More quirky garage punk insanity from that Barcelona group who already made an excellent impression with previous EP two years ago. Somewhat more focused and confident sounding on this one, this is another delightful blast of high-percentage egg-ness in a similar vein to, say, R.M.F.C., Set-Top Box, Nuts or Spain’s own wonders of the Prison Affair, Finale and Beta Maximo variety.
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Beautifully shambolic chaos operating somewhere around the weirder fringes of hardcore and garage punk. When in hardcore mode, i’m most reminded of Cells and other hardcore-leaning projects of Connie Voltaire while on the garage side of things, i’m thinking of stuff á la Liquids, early Erik Nervous or – more recently – Print Head and Scab Breath.
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New stuff from Gee Tee or Vee or whatever, this dude’s shit is all good! On this LP, he’s holding a nice balance between the power pop tendencies of his recent Tee Vee Repairman records and the somewhat more garage-leaning projects of his á la Satanic Togas, Research Reactor Corp. and Set-Top Box, making for another fine batch of fuzzed-out garage pop tunes, among them some of his most infectious ones so far, that’s for sure.
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A duo made up of Kimi Recor and Vinny “Vaguess” Earley, you can’t really overlook the similarities to the latter dude’s recorded output but there’s also more going on here. Starting off from a familiar mix of garage- and post punk there’s some clear Lithics kind of energy in some places or Welt Star, another Earley-related project comes to mind while songs like Staring at the Sun and Please 3 sound like forgotten Woolen Men tunes that fell through the cracks somewhere and Chameleon has the vibe of a Digital Leather deep cut from an alternate cold-wave reality.
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New depravity by polish garage punk’s current prime movers and shakers Moron’s Morons! To put it simply, this shit is fucking good – a vaguely traditional oldschool garage goodness mostly reminiscent of other european groups like Shitty Life, Dadar, Mitraille or Gluer as well as a few US acts á la Sick Thoughts, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads. Also plenty of more oldschool stuff to mention here like Australia’s overlords Saints and Radio Birdman, classic California punk shit of the Germs, Agent Orange, Adolescents variety goin’ on in numbers like Psychosis Diagnosis and Nothin’ for You.
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Much stronger than i figured at first glance, the debut tape by Chicago group Cel Ray. This shit is carrying similar vibes to some of the great female-fronted punk groups of our time like Vexx, Negative Scanner, Judy & The Jerks, Amyl and the Sniffers, All Hits, The Neuros, BB and the Blips… while also apparently taking cues from a larger cluster of groups on the intersection of post- and garage punk á la Patti, Reality Group, Uranium Club, Ex-Cult or Mystic Inane.
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