Always a nice thing to have in your house these ghoulies… The Perth group's newest EP might be their most catchy and upbeat batch of tunes so far and should please the discerning connoisseur of garage-/synth/eggpunk phenomena in the vicinity of, say, Research Reactor Corp, Cherry Cheeks, Alien Nosejob, Satanic Togas… just to name a few.
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Haven't heard from this L.A. garage-/synth-/hair Punk project for quite a while. Anyway, this weirdo's newest cassette once again has an abundance of beautifully retarded DIY cock rock miniature madness in store for us.
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You can't ever go wrong with another EP by Orlando's melodic synth-, garage- and post punk powerhouse Cherry Cheeks who achieved some kind of punk rock quasi-nighthood last year as signified by their first LP being released on Total Punk. The newest self-released bunch of tracks delivers more of the same catchy goodness with slight similarities to groups like Freak Genes, Powerplant, Trashdog, Warm Exit, Alien Nosejob and Set-Top Box.
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More insanity to make your brain hurt from that certain Leipzig garage-/synth punk outfit fucking around, as the name would suggest, only in the eggiest corners of eggdom. Full of hooks and catchy most of the time, weird as fuck all of the time. Friends of shit á la Nuts, Set-Top Box, Metdog, Nubot555 and Dee Bee Rich are gonna have another ball with this.
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Goodbye Boozy releases tend to come in batches and here we have the clear standout of this latest one - the newest EP or LP or whatever by Parma, Italy garage punks Dadar who take another kinda straightforward, risk-averse approach here stylistically, while they once again excell at engineering catchy melodic detonations of pure garage- and synth punk fun in the well-trodden neighborhood of Ausmuteants, Mononegatives, Useless Eaters and the like.
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Already having made a great first impression with their recent Vol. 1 tape, Cincinnati's Catastrophic Dance Ensemble have another tiny treat for us, roughly two-and-a-half new songs in their heavily egg-leaning oddball cheesy mixture of garage-, post- and synth punk that friends of, say… Set-Top Box, R.M.F.C., Eugh, Metdog, Mononegatives, Nuts are gonna have another field day with.
More incredibly bonkers shit out of the belgian Belly Button Records orbit. What we get on this dude's debut EP under the Nubot555 moniker (previously the culprit has been doing shit as King Dick) is some garage- and electro punk mayhem of the overwhelmingly egg-ish variety. These lo-fi gems manage to counterbalance all their quirky weirdnes with plenty of smarts and creative energy, making for an impressive debut easily standing out even in its fairly crowded genre pool. I'd say Egg Idiot have found their match here.
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You can't go wrong with any new release by that UK garage-/synth punk duo teaming up Proto Idiot's Andrew Anderson with Charly Murphy of groups such as The Red Cords, Internal Credit and Isolation. After exploring a more cold, minimal synth aesthetic sound on their previous LP, this one presents them in a somewhat fuller sound and probably at their catchiest so far, channeling primarily the spirit of first-wave synth punk acts á la Primitive Calculators, Nervous Gender, Screamers, Units, Minimal Man and of course Devo (duh!), while from the current landscape, comparisons to Isotope Soap or Alien Nosejob in full-on electro mode may be drawn as well.
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Awesome synth-/ electro punk shit from Berlin that kinda plays out like a curious mix of Pisse, Puff! or the most recent, electro-heavy Schiach EP. Further you might draw comparisons to Spyroids, Heavy Metal as well as old synth punk staples á la Screamers, Nervous Gender. Klickfarm in particular might have taken some cues from the Visitors' classic ripper Electric Heat as well.
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Excellent shit via Turbodiscos. Leipzig/Berlin group Exwhite shouldn't need an introduction at this point, having blasted a respectable hole in the floor with their recent Estray EP. Their side to this kickass little EP won't disappoint either as they deliver two comparatively straight-ahead, no-frills garage punk smashers.
No less exciting are the tracks by Olympia, Washington synth-/garage punk act The Gobs who've already been making waves with a whole shitload of blown-out lo-fi demo releases. Here we get to witness them in something approaching proper mid-fi quality for the first time. Sounds fucking awesome too, who would've thought?
