Texture Freq - Masochistic Episode

A beau­ti­ful­ly over­whelm­ing mud show­er of noise-in­fest­ed Post­core, the de­but EP of this Min­neapo­lis group clear­ly in­her­it­ing some of the DNA of the city's own Noise Rock-re­lat­ed his­to­ry while feel­ing per­fect­ly con­tem­po­rary all the same, main­ly re­mind­ing me of re­cent bands á la Doll­house, Launch­er, Mys­tic Inane, Wymyns Prysyn and Op­tic Nerve… with a touch of Hot Snakes thrown in for good mea­sure.

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Snooper - Super Snõõper

At first glance i couldn't help but feel a bit dis­ap­point­ed by the lack of new ma­te­r­i­al on the Nashville group's de­but LP but then again, i can't say these new record­ings of songs most­ly known from pre­vi­ous EPs don't slap - they kick some se­ri­ous ass, trad­ing in some of the pre­vi­ous re­leas­es' sham­bol­ic quirk­i­ness for a bit more of a hard­core edge and while i've re­al­ly grown fond of the EPs' Lo-Fi aes­thet­ics, there have al­so been some ex­am­ples on these that nev­er quite clicked with me in their ear­li­er ver­sions and its those songs that gain the most on this LP which is like­ly al­so a clos­er rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the group's cur­rent live sound, their shows hav­ing gained kind of a leg­endary rep­u­ta­tion at this point. Can't wait to see these folks tour Eu­rope.

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Silicone Values - Disposable Music /​ New Cold War?

Britain's most awe­some DIY melod­ic post punk /​ pow­er pop group of our time has yet an­oth­er dig­i­tal sin­gle out and you al­ready guessed it: It's the great­est thing in the world ever - six-and-a-half min­utes of pure ec­sta­t­ic bliss and by the way, what have y'all been do­ing all the fuck­ing time be­cause in a just world, these folks would be on top of every­thing sell­ing out fuck­ing are­nas. Al­so, why the hell hasn't there been some com­pi­la­tion LP on Drunk­en Sailor or Er­ste Theke or To­tal Punk or what­ev­er yet? It's about fuck­ing time i'd say. Argh, every­one out there can be so god­damn use­less some­times…

Wristwatch - II

This Madi­son, Wis­con­sin duo's sec­ond LP de­liv­ers more of their very own brand of mod­er­ate­ly De­vo-fied, catchy lit­tle Garage-, Post Punk and Pow­er Pop con­structs with some added Wire-es­que mo­ments. What still came across as a bit samey and over­pow­er­ing on the first record has gained a lot in class and ma­tu­ri­ty on this one - not least thanks to tons more va­ri­ety - call­ing to mind groups as di­verse as Pow­er­plant, Andy Hu­man & The Rep­toids, Nick Nor­mal, Smirk, Dele­tions, Why Both­er?, Iso­tope Soap and Erik Ner­vous.

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Fever Gleaming - Fever Gleaming

A kick­ass mix­ture of straight­for­ward, melan­choly post- and garage punk melod­i­cism on this Min­neapo­lis group's de­but tape. Most of all this re­minds me of a mix be­tween ear­ly Ner­vosas, Red Dons, The Es­tranged and Day­light Rob­bery, but even a hint of Vol­cano Suns, Mov­ing Tar­gets and the oc­ca­sion­al smidge of Clum­sy-era Sami­am can be found in here. Al­so friends of Telecult, Short Days and Cheap Whine will sure get a kick out of this!

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Timüt - No Live

Ex­cel­lent shit, this record­ed-live-on-tour de­but al­bum by a group from Metz, France. This stuff can be rough­ly clas­si­fied as (neo-) no wave funk with, just maybe, a slight added touch of egg­punk and oc­ca­sion­al mo­ments of '90s Dischord uni­verse. Maybe think of a more en­er­getic, di­rect, dance­able and min­i­mal­ist, less art­sy vari­ant of groups á la D.U.D.S., Pill or N0V3L.

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Longings - Dreams In Red

A strong batch of new tunes by this Amherst, Mass­a­chu­setts group hav­ing noth­ing to prove at this point… and it on­ly took them as lit­tle as eight years to fol­low up their 2015 de­but EP! Sound-wise, this is still most­ly the same time­less brand of con­cise, song-based, quite dark and moody post punk, sure to get the ap­proval of friends of shit á la Crim­i­nal Code, VHS, Sieve­head, Video, Sched­ule 1, Sieve­head, Pyrex or Clock Of Time.

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Midgee - Mixtape

Our week­ly taste of catchy & funky, egg-re­lat­ed Lo-Fi garage-/synth punk weird­ness comes cour­tesy of some Mel­bourne dude or group and might be com­pared in on­ly the most fovor­able fash­ion to the likes of Prison Af­fair, Nuts, Set-Top Box and Beer. Love it!

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Peel - The Spectacle Of Perpetual Motion

Hy­per­ac­tive, quirky and chaot­ic yet equal­ly smart and elab­o­rate, slight­ly no wave-ish post punk from Ban­dung, In­done­sia! This is es­sen­tial new fod­der for fans of shit in the vein of, say, Pat­ti, Re­al­i­ty Group, Big Bop­per and Ex­it Group.

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Night Punch - Where Sins Bloom So Does Death

On their kick­ass de­but LP, Ham­burg group Night Punch present a tight-as-fuck melange of slight­ly goth-lean­ing, hor­ror-themed garage-, synth- and post punk that some­times cranks its tem­po up in­to hard­core spheres, oth­er times be­ing rem­i­nis­cent of a ba­sic Spits for­mu­la spiked with plen­ty of sur­pris­es and un­ex­pect­ed flour­ish­es for an over­all equal­ly quirky and dark aes­thet­ic which is sure to please dark punk-, death rock- and dun­geon afic­i­na­dos all the same. Fur­ther pos­si­ble ref­er­ences would be a num­ber of garage- and synth punk acts like The Gobs, Liq­uid Face, Shrinkwrap Killers, Bro­ken Prayer, Droids Blood, Iso­tope Soap, the un­fil­tered thrust of Exwhite, maybe even a hint of Acrylics in the rougher patch­es.

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