Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The Gobs - 'Demo' digital (self-released)
Friday, March 12, 2021
OLD SHIT: Cartoone S/T vinyl (Atlantic)
I don't make it out to the record store very often these days and my latest trip to the local nerd depository was a prime example why- I took me about and hour and $50 to get through two letters of the alphabet! Luckily it was long enough to come upon this superb LP. Cartoone are apparently an Italian band from the late 60s. If Moody blues had a little more toughness/swagger and filled an entire LP up with sleepers and heat-seeking jams they would sound something like these guys. All the songs are sung in English and the entire album just continued to surprise me after I brought it home and blasted it on ye olde hi-fi. The best part? It cost me 7 whole dollars.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
REVIEW: The Sueves - 'Tears Of Joy' vinyl (MAGICATALOG)
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
REVIEW: Bruise Control - 'HMRCEP' digital single (self-released)
Being in a band is supposed to be fun, right? Let's face it...in a world of seemingly infinite bands beating every niche to death through the blunt force of perceived genre orthodoxy it's cool when a band throws away the playbook and just fucking rocks. Enter Manchester's Bruise Control. They ain't reinventing the wheel or implying that's what a band should be doing. They're just choppin' it up and having a damn good time doin' it. Or who knows? Maybe they're all a bunch of insufferable fucks that hate everyone and everything (including this review!). If that's the case I'd advise them all to drink a tall glass of shut-the-fuck-up and step off my dick while I'm doing you a solid, ya whiny twats. Either way I like the music. Get it here.