Gloop

Gloop is a Noise-rock/Post-hardcore band from Baltymore, Maryland.

Not that heavy (in a good way), with some melodic and well built 

parts and breaks, there is definitly more in Gloop than in your average noise-rock band.

Junk Drawer released in 2017, despite a raw recording, alreay got all the diversity and angry high pitched vocals that will be Gloop identity. 
From somewhere no too far from screamo in Sad Man Meal, they bring us back around DC with I Heard Her Talking and An Offering. 

 Overall a very promising first release despite Blueberries for Supper which is way too poppy for me (guys... this guitar solo, really?).

 End of 2017, the band records The Tourist, which will be released in June 2018 on Grimoire Records. 8 songs with a great sound, Gloop's first album is a success.
The vocals are still high pitched but more balanced, the songs are still angry but with an extra kind of crazy with a bit of an out-of-control vibe. 
Now far beyond the borders of the noise-rock genre, Gloop keeps making you discover the depth of each song, layers after layers, every time you listen to the album.

And it brings us to now, or more precisely to the end of last september, when
 Smiling Lines was released on Grimoire and Buzzhowl Records.

  

Same recipe as with The Tourist, Gloop's second full length got great songs with a great sound. The singer now compeltely masters his voice and is able to go up and down, deep and high, crazy and angry... Here is what is said about it on their bandcamp page, 

and I could not say better:

"Whether sung, screamed, or falsetto, his vocals are exclusively high-pitched, sounding like they are at the top of his range, sounding like a man physically straining. Within those high pitches comes a range of strange and ambiguous emotional tenors. Gianninoto always sounds manic, but manic is a level of energy, not an emotion. Is he feeling pained? Enraged? Sad? Terrified? Excited? Playful? Delighted? It sounds like bits of all of those by turns, sometimes with jarringly rapid transitions between them. If you heard someone vocalizing like this on the bus, you probably wouldn’t sit by them, yet if you have a heart, you’d feel for them and hope someone is looking out for them."

 Smiling Lines is a good album, with a deep and complex expression of mixed feelings which requires multiple listenings to be able to appreciate them all.

With a release a year, the trio doesn't look tired and is probably 
working on 2020 release... 
Which will probably be great but in which I would suggest to inject a little dose of surprise...

You can listen to Gloop and a lot of punk songs on Rien à Faire #5.


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EYESØRES

Eyesores is a post-punk band from Melbourne, Australia.

The trio self-released a tape at the end of 2018 and... it is really really good.

So post-punk yes, definitly, the long intro and vocals of Golden Soil got

a clear Joy Division influence and this great bass line in Pro-Create could be from a Warsaw song but there is a looot more in Eyesores than that.

 Wipers maybe yes (but I have never been a fan to be honest) but also

the Portland melancholic punk scene (the Observers, Red Dons etc...) and there

are clearly worse bands to be compared to...

It's been already more than a year since the release of this great album, I hope
to hear more from them in 2020...
It's one of the most exciting band at the moment in my opinion.

 You can listen to Eyesores on Rien à Faire #5.


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Loretta

Loretta (Nervous Eaters ?) is a new band from Boston, Massachusetts.

These girls play some kind of high energy 77 KBD punk, and they do it pretty well.

Imagine The Loudmouths on a Killed Dy Beath comp and you won't be too far. 

Check out their self-released Bleach My Brain tape

(I love the à la Winston Smith artwork).

I really hope it is just a start and that I will hear more from them very soon.

You can listen to Loretta on Rien à Faire #5.

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Terra Soror

Terra Soror is a 3-piece girl band from London, England, with an ex-member of Scrap Brain. If you think Frau or Good Throb you're not far. 

This is another side of UK feminist punk, another great one.

Last may the band sef-released Revenge, a 6 tracks tape full of noisy and frustrated post-punk. I don't know if post-punk is the proper term in this case, it's kinda slow and heavy, building up the tension riffs after riffs...

Each song is filled up with frustration and contained rage... at some point I was just begging for it to come out, to finally burst, to explode but no... 
more and more tension... again and again... 

Honestly, this is good, and I want more.

You can listen to Terra Soror and some other wonderful happy
 children songs in Rien à Faire #5.

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Jocko

Jocko is from Omaha, Nebraska, and before anything else 

I wanna say that I FUCKIN LOVE JOCKO! Ok, said!

It all started with a low-fi Demo in 2016 which is really 

really below what was going to come next...

...And two years later it's the long awaited blast...
For Expression,their first full length, the 5 guys deliver 11 fantastic songs of
hardcore meets hip-hop. Rage Against The Machine of course but if Zack
had kept the attitude of Inside Out... HxC as F###!!!

This album is great, really.
First released as a tape on Not Normal Tapes 
it's now available on vinyl on Dog Years Records.  
If any European label is reading this... please... do something!

A tour in Europe next year guys ?

You can listen to Jocko on Rien à Faire #5.


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Reaccion Violenta

After Abuso, here is another band from the Silla Eléctrica colombian punk compilation (2018). Some fast and furious punk-loves-d-beat from ex-Primer Regimen, yes it's colombian as fuck. Great basslines, some barking vocals and stomping drums, yes it's also raw and angry!

Reaccion Violenta is from Bogota and I hope to hear from them really soon.

You can listen to Reaccion Violenta and a lot of other 
great melodies to tango in Rien à Faire #5.

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TV Violence

TV Violence is a new band from France with some not-new-at-all guys from Paris and Nantes.. 

Jérôme Treuvelot, singer and writer, has been cruising in the melodic hardcore side of the punk-rock business for decades now. Drummer/singer in bands like  M-sixteen, Homeboys, Mon Autre Groupe or Last Night he has a long history of noise behind him.

But what we have here with TV Violence is a bit different and I like it... a lot!

From hardcore to noise-rock through free jazz and noisy punk, TV Violence is not here to give us the same old recipe but to spit out a very well digested concentrate of many sub-genres of the punk culture. 

The very noisy Nose Bleed and Subhumanoid Meltdown, the arty I Think We Are The Same Person with the crazy saxophone of Tom Bodlin, the aerial and disturbing Liquid Sky, the No-Means-No meets Lukrate Milk instrumental Nuke Cult or the chaotic The Pipe Of Doom, there are a lot of things in this album and you need several listenings to get it all... And it's worth it. 

One of the big surprise and great discovery of this end of 2019, keep it up guys!

 You can listen to TV Violence and other great cathodic tunes on Rien à Faire #5.

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VA - Rien à Faire #5

Rien à Faire compilations are back with Rien à Faire #5!

As usual you will get your full dose of punk/hardcore/post-punk/noise-rock 

with 16 tunes from (mostly) brand new releases.

FULL COMPILATION

 

01 - Sore Points - On the Wire
02 - Reacción violenta - Juventud
03 - Loretta - Don't Wanna
04 - Jocko - Shades of Green
05 - Rejex - Don't Talk To Me
06 - Terra Soror - Troglodyte
07 - Eyesores - Second State 08 - Gloop - Buckets 09 - Scowl - Retail Hell 10 - Terminal State - Your Rules 11 - Overwhelmed - Destroy The UK 12 - Neon - Spit 13 - Pickpocket - Work 14 - Satelite - Ojos En Las Paredes 15 - Solarized - Daughters of the Dust Bag 16 - TV Violence - Nose bleed 

Download here:

Rien à Faire #5

 

 

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Benny and The Roids

picture by Martin Crudo

Benny and The Roids is a 77 punk/oi! band from Los Angeles, California.

The name comes from an 80s Disney educational film about steroids abuse, in case you were wondering (and it's a good name).

 They play this great type of Oi! heavily influenced by 77 punk and Rock'n roll 
and I love it!

They released a great Demo in 2015 which finally came out as a 7'' last August on Discos MMM, Hectic World (and Sorry State ?).
Go grab it!

As the RIP suggests on the cover the band doesn't exist naymore... too bad!

You can listen to Benny And The Roids and other anthems in Rien à Faire #4 

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Disco Junk

Disco Junk is a teenage low-fi garage punk with a fun dont-give-a-fuck attitude from Melbourne, Australia.

From what I understand it all started with Billy (singer, guitar player) who was making punk songs all by himself in his bed room while he was in high school under the name Republican Blue.

Then Billy and a couple of friends released a few tapes full of this fun aussie offbeat humour and punk rock (like The Chats, Amyl and the Sniffers etc...).

Disco Junk just released their first vinyl EP named Underage Punk on Hozac Records

Same recipe, good energy, the EP is nice and it makes me think a lot about some 77 kbd aussie punk with a more garage sound (like Razar, The Leftovers and The Victims) and of The Vines of course (sorry dude but the hair...).

Anyway I feel like we will hear from Billy and his friends very soon and that the best has still to come.

 Some pictures here were taken by Jake Brown

You can listen to Disco Junk and other stuff on Rien à Faire #4.

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Thank

Thank is a noise-rock band from Leeds, UK, with some electronics/synth and a great sense of humor (they describe themselves as a "Slipknot covers band").

Everything started in 2017 with their first EP Sexghost Hellscape which is a beautiful piece of noisy noise-rock with crazy, delirious and desperate vocals. Great production makes it sound super powerful, the drums are always there, stomping it, while all the noisy part explodes in the air, supported by bursting vocals.

And there is no rush no, they take their time to spread it all with quite long tracks, from 3:10 minutes to a frantic roller coaster of 8:20 minutes, you don't get bored one second.

Check out this disturbing psychedelic video 

 Their new EP Please out on Buzzhowl Records and Exag is the proof that they haven't lost anything during these two years. With a new member carrying a big history of noise behind him, we could only expect the best, and that's what we got.

Nothing too polite about these 4 new songs, just rude and frank as I like it.  
The electronics is still there but just enough, just perfectly balanced with the rest, not like a disco-new-wave parody that unfortunatly many bands tend to become as soon as a synth shows up.
It is a great records honestly and I can't wait to see a live performance, with so much energy on records it can only be a blast on stage.

You can listen to Thank and other beautiful love songs in Rien à Faire #1.

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SPUR

Well to be honest I don't know much about SPUR except what their page on the Invisible Audio tape label says: they hail from Broward County, Florida and they just released a demo tape named Cowboy Killer.

Punk with some touch of hardcore and high-pitched female vocals, the demo's good but I feel that it can get better, I will just wait and see I guess...

You can listen to SPUR and other sweet melodies in Rien à Faire #4. 

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DADAR

DADAR was born in 2017 as the KBD synth 77 punk solo project of Lorenzo, a hyper-active punk scene activist from Rovereto/Trento/Parma (Italy). This guy can also be found in Shitty Life (great power punk-hardcore), Left In Ruins or in The Secret Tape when he is not working on Sotto Terra Rock Zine... super active indeed!

A Demo in July, a killer 7'' in August, 2017 was a blast. 

Sick Of Pasta (seriously is that not the best name ever for a record from Italy?) is a little gem of dumb 77 happy punk that will make your head shake.

And they came back last July with a new EP on Goodbye Boozy named I'm A Töch.
After pasta Dadar now serves us pizza but pizza/pasta/whatever Dadar keeps the same recipe as in their last EP....but with a lot more synth sauce this time... 
who said too much??? 

Well yes I honestly still like the whole vibe but I am very picky with my synth and I feel like it could have been less on this one but it is definitly worth a listen...

You can listen to Dadar and a lot of non-synth punk on Rien à Faire #4.


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Decisions

From NYC, Decisions is a not-so-old band playing hardcore punk.

After a Demo in 2017 and an EP in 2018 (released by Wharf Cat and Death by Sheep records) a brand new tape came out in October: ACT FAST!

Definitly their best release until now, there is the despair, anger and urgency of a generation facing the coming apocalypse... something I can totally rely to.

It's all in their statement: 

"ACT FAST IS A STATEMENT REGARDING THE APOCALYPSE FACING OUR WORLD AT LARGE, AND ON A SMALLER SCALE, THE SOCIAL APOCALYPSE THAT MANY OF US EXPERIENCE IN OUR DAY TO DAY LIVES. IT FEELS AS THOUGH THE WORLD IS ENDING AND THE SPACES WE HAVE CARVED OUT WILL SOON CAVE IN-- WE HAVE TO ACT FAST."

Here is a shitty video of one of their live performance in a place which looks like a bookshop.

You can listen to Decisions and other hits in Rien à Faire #3.

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Pig Frenzy

Pig Frenzy hails from Rotterdam, Netherlands, and started last year in 2018.

How could I describe their sound ? crazy post-noise-punk ? Yes that's exactly how they were sounding on their first two releases, the Pig Frenzy release and the I Don't Need You / Oral Moral EP (2 songs which are also on the first release).

 But most interestingly, a few months ago, they released a tape with 5 new songs.
5 new songs with a lot more of "post" in them... noisy post-punk?
You still got this slightly arty weirdness but the original chaos is now more ordered, darker maybe but clearer also. It doesn't make it bad, oh no, the insanity is still there, bursting around from time to time...

 And as they seem to be pretty cool people, Hogtied is available for free!

But man I really feel that this is the kind of band that HAS TO be seen live.
I mean seriously check this out...

 Sone other pretty cool pictures of Pig Frenzy here.

 picture by Susana Martins

You can tango to Pig Frenzy and other sweet dreams made of this in Rien à Faire #4

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