Satanic Togas - Your Choice

Did i ever men­tion i've been a chris­t­ian once? Yeah i know. True sto­ry and i hope y'all had a good laugh. Nowa­days i'm on­ly wor­ship­ping Sa­tan though. Huge fan! The music's a lot bet­ter too. The Devil's aus­tralian, as every­one knows and so are his to­gas, who have as of yet ut­ter­ly failed to ever shred a sin­gle tune that doesn't fuck­ing rip. Their newest ex­tend­ed play has more of their sig­na­ture blend of garage-/synth-/eg­g­punk and pow­er pop good­ness burn­ing fast and bright­ly with ob­vi­ous sim­i­lar­i­ties to oth­er re­cent shit á la Re­search Re­ac­tor Corp., Ghoulies, Gee Tee, Daugh­ter Bat & The Lip Stings, Alien Nosjob, Buck Biloxi, Set-Top Box and Er­ic Ner­vous.

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Dr​ý​sildj​ö​full - Verri en vondur

Just weeks af­ter their re­cent tape on Iron Lung Records here's a new one al­ready by this, pre­sum­ably, ice­landic group, this time again com­ing to us cour­tesy of dun­geon-/black­ened-/ex­per­i­men­tal spe­cial­ist la­bel Grime Stone Records and it's their strongest, most ful­ly re­al­ized one so far if you ask me. Take the rough specs and traits of black met­al, noisy synth-, hard­core- and elec­tro punk, com­ple­ment that un­re­lent­ing force with a slight­ly egg­punk-y aes­thet­ic that just seems a lit­tle too cute and quirky in face of all that grim­ness and you just might end up with some­thing sim­i­lar to what these folks are go­ing for.

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Cherry Cheeks - CCLPII

On their sec­ond LP - once again brought to us by the taste­ful folks of To­tal Punk Records - Or­lan­do group Cher­ry Cheeks present them­selves at their straight­est and sim­plest, dumb­est and catchi­est so far mak­ing for yet an­oth­er glo­ri­ous­ly fuzzy lump of joy­ful high-calo­ry pow­er pop, garage- and synth punk fluff with abun­dant echoes of classy shit á la Smirk, Set-Top Box, Prison Af­fair, Gee Tee, Ghoulies and ISS.

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New Vogue - Waiting Daze

Mon­tre­al group New Vogue fol­low-up their ex­cel­lent self-ti­tled 2020 mi­ni LP with an­oth­er batch of kick­ass tunes - way more synth-heavy this time yet every bit as in­fec­tious as be­fore, ra­di­at­ing a con­stant­ly shapeshift­ing kind of vibe call­ing to mind bits and pieces of Freak Genes, Use­less Eaters, Pow­er­plant, Andy Hu­man and The Rep­toids, Lost Sounds, Mononeg­a­tives and Alien Nose­job, to name just a few high-pro­file ref­er­ences.

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Billiam - Corner Tactics

Billiam's first re­leas­es were around the 2020 mark yet it feels to me as if this dude has been around for a lot longer, a sub­lim­i­nal pres­ence al­ways hov­er­ing at the pe­riph­ery of a wider 12XU-rel­e­vant bub­ble. His newest LP should launch him right in­to the spot­light though, this be­ing his strongest and most con­sis­tent batch of new tunes so far in his hard-to-im­i­tate (though plen­ty of folks are try­ing for sure…), vague­ly egg-ish melange of some­times rather bare-bones synth- garage- and post punk - catchy as fuck, sim­ple and dumb yet every sin­gle move hits home!

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Завірюга - 18000

The on­ly ukran­ian egg­punk group that i know of so far had al­ready piqued my in­ter­est with a batch of su­per sol­id ex­tend­ed plays in re­cent weeks and with their newest one, they're fuck­ing killing it if you ask me. Manda­to­ry new lis­ten­ing for fans of shit á la Prison Af­fair, Set-Top Box, Beer and Nuts!

SGATV - SGATV

Swedish la­bel Push My But­tons brings us the full length de­but of this swiss group, which al­so presents their strongest set of tunes so far and their son­ic vi­sion at its most re­al­ized. That means: a de­vi­ous­ly catchy dopamine rush of glitzy wave-ish synth- and garage punk smash­ers - ex­quis­ite sug­ary good­ness echo­ing the likes of Wrist­watch, Dig­i­tal Leather, Sex Mex, Tele­drome, Pow­er­plant, The Gobs, Shrinkwrap Killers, Stal­ins Of Sound and Video­drome.

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Gym Tonic - Sanitary Situations

A good four years af­ter an in­sane­ly en­joy­able de­but LP of this Berlin group, we fi­nal­ly get an­oth­er taste of the same, fair­ly quirky yet ex­pert­ly pro­pelled synth-, garage- and post punk good­ness sure to de­light ad­mir­ers of stuff in the vein of, say, Bel­ly Jel­ly, Puff, Dum­my, Aus­muteants, Quit­ter, Liq­uid Lunch, Ghoulies, Diode or Spot­ting.

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Aborted Tortoise & Ghoulies - EuroTour Split

This is in­deed a tour i'm pret­ty psy­ched about al­ready! This new split 7" on Good­bye Boozy Records presents the two Perth groups at their finest as Abort­ed Tor­toise make your legs shake with their patent­ed con­structs of smar­ty­pants garage punk á la Ura­ni­um Club, Pinch Points, Dumb, Vin­tage Crop and the like. Ghoulies then fol­low up with two strong and catchy garage-/egg-/synth punk tunes rough­ly in the Re­search Re­ac­tor Corp, Cher­ry Cheeks, Set-Top Box, Alien Nose­job or Sa­tan­ic To­gas fash­ion.

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Noise Violations & Sprgrs - Split

Aus­tralian la­bel Painscale Records de­liv­ers its strongest en­try so far in a se­ries of split cas­settes. Main at­trac­tion here is clear­ly the longer side com­pris­ing the de­but batch of Mel­bourne group Noise Vi­o­la­tions, who set ablaze an ir­re­sistible bar­rage of catchy hooks in a slight­ly egg-ad­ja­cent brand of garage punk with echoes of well-renowned genre pow­er­hous­es such as Sa­tan­ic To­gas, R.M.F.C., Ghoulies, Boo­ji Boys, Met­al Gu­ru, Erik Ner­vous or Gee Tee, to name just a few.
The oth­er side then con­tains the pre­vi­ous­ly re­leased 2022 EP by Grana­da, Spain group Sprgrs, which is well worth an­oth­er lis­ten for fans of dance­able Lo-Fi punk stuff in the vein of, say, Prison Af­fair, Beer, Nuts, Pringue, Dee Bee Rich and Be­ta Max­i­mo.

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