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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Super X – Super X

This tape by Melbourne group Super-X isn’t exactly new stuff, but that shit is way to strong not to be mentioned here. Witness a sonic spectacle unfold, fusing the old garage-/proto punk fuzz of Fun House-era Stooges with spaced out vibes not unlike Destruction Unit or early Telescopes, all the while dragging along with it some traces of contemporary post punk.

Hamer – Hamer

Whoa… three years after i first noticed this band from leeds and a quite charming, chaotic early EP of theirs, i honestly didn’t expect their debut album to blow my socks off the way it did just now. Instead of the EP’s relaxed DIY-Vibes you now find yourself in the middle of a ferocious high speed trip whose rough coordinates hover somewhere between fuzzed out space-, psych- and garage punk. Sure, these Songs won’t win any awards for their originality but totally make up for that by developing into a blast so potent and restless it doesn’t give you a second to think about such bullshit anyway. I’m reminded of bands like Destruction Unit, Wash, Flat Worms, Draggs or even japanese genre veterans High Rise.

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