I've been really busy lately and I really struggled to maintain the frequency of my posts. Anyway here is, like every months, a new playlist/compilation of super hot punk stuff! A lot of killer hardcore punk but some post-punk and weird shit also.
I will probably have to lower the frequency of my reviews in the coming months but I will always keep this show running!
C ya soon!
N,J'Oi!
01 - Chain Whip - Two Step To Hell 02 - Anxious Pleasers - Errand Boy 03 - Ex-Dom - Desesperanza 04 - Imploders - Rip Em Off 05 - Ready Armed System - Hair Of The Dog 06 - Delivery - Floored 07 - Night Lunch - Stop Spots 08 - Cutters - Australian War Crimes 09 - ШТАЗИ - Штази 10 - Ilusión - Metiche 11 - Soursob - TV 12 - Super Cheap - Lines 13 - Show Me The Body - People On TV 14 - Modecenter - Chain Boys 15 - Dog Rally - Dog Heave
You guys know Mudhoney's first EPSuperfuzz Bigmuff, named after the band's two
favourite guitar effects
pedals which give this very peculiar dirty fuzzy sound,right ?
Well the Futurat guys, from St Petersburg, Russia, could have actually use that title as their band name!
Because it's a proper OD of super fuzz guitar sound that they plan to
make us have!
I did not find much information about these young lads, they probably
have connections with
DP
(weird instrumental low-fi synth punk) and
Zür Tü
(fuzzy instrumental noise rock, a drummer side-project), two other
St Petersburg
bands which are also internationally oriented enough to write in
english, but that's all I know.
Starting with Entrance Fuzz (and ending with Gone Fuzz)
Futurat are not hiding their hands... it's gonna be slow,
heavy and extremely fuzzy all the way!
Taking us back to the early days of grunge when Seattle and the
world was putting heaviness back on the map, incorporating
Black Sabbath and the heavy rock of the 70s in a modern
punk perspective, Futurat pushes the idea to the limit and
wraps us in a thick layer of buzzing molasses.
Soundgarden, Green River, and Mudhoney of
course... these names immediately come to mind while going through
the more than 4 minutes long tracks of the Russian band. But even
these classics are far from the level of fuzziness under which the
Futurat vocals are buried.
Yes I know we're quite far from the usual short and intense
hardcore punk stuff I usually promote here, but you guys need
some change sometimes as I much as I do..
There is honestly something intensely bewitching, mesmerizing, to
let the thick but soft bass frequencies lull you into a slightly
intoxicating drunkenness.
To be honest it can sound like it's too much at first and yet, in the end I was
quite surprised to see myself enjoy the whole thing way more than
I thought.
The perfect tape for a long subway journey or a Sunday afternoon
of tidying up !
This new tape called
Incinerat
was released by
Under Heat Record
(another aussie record label) a few weeks ago.
On the contrary of their previous release, these six new tracks
have all Russian titles and Russian lyrics, which makes more sense
in my opinion.
But it's far from being the only difference, the tracks are also
shorter and give off an energy that is incomparable with what I've
heard so far from Futurat.
The trio has worked on the drums sound and the overall mix of
the instruments which is now a bit more balanced (the guitar is
still super fuzzy and all over the place of course) in a way that
the energy of each of them is better oriented to the
front...
Ok it starts a bit softly with the first tracks (which I would
not have put at the beginning) but as soon as we reach the very
Bleach-era-Nirvana-influenced
cпонтанное событие(spontannoe sobytie) it's clear that everything before was just appetizer.
But to me the best really comes at the end withво сне (vo sne) and ртуть (rtut') that propel us directly into another dimension made up solely of free energy and low-frequency riots.
To be quite frank it took me several listenings to really digest the heaviness and the thickness of the sound that Futurat force-feeds us deep in the gullet.
But like a good old foie gras, it's worth it!
I nevertheless believe that the band is capable of going one (or more) notch higher in its fuzz and tinnitus pastry. And I'm all curious to taste the next batch...
Still a lot of tracks from late 2020 releases but also the first 2021 killer punk tunes.
A lot of hardcore punk this time but not only, I try to keep it as good and diverse (in the limits of my very good taste of course) as possible.
N,J'Oi!
01 - Thought Control - Thought Control 02 - Hackjob - Friends 03 - Pensioner - I Don't Sweat 04 - Futurat - во сне (vo sne) 05 - Black Button - Casualties of Progress 06 - Hüstler - Who's Your God 07 - Headlice - Auto-Erotic Asphyxion 08 - Preening - You Gave It Away 09 - Yard Act - Dark Days 10 - Imposition Man - Resilience 11 - Select Sex - Signals Turning Sour 12 - Lumpen - Dominan Tu Futuro 13 - ISS - Spikes 14 - Ero Guro - High Life 15 - Wails - Among Dogs 16 - Klämp - An Orb 17 - MelmACHello - Je laisse surgir
And you can of course listen to all past shows on Mixcloud!
Katiny Slezki is a punk band from Yakutsk, Siberia (Russia), which has been playing some kind of low-fi rock'n roll punk since 2015.
Yakutsk is a city in the very eastearn part of Russia, somewhere which looks extremely remote (and cold!) and it's interesting to see what a punk scene in this area can look like.
I discovered this band (and others) thanks to an article on bandcamp about the Yakutsk scene.
The main actor there seems to be юность севера which gives the opportunity
So Katiny Slezki has released a few digital recordings on their bandcamp page since 2015. It all sounds really low fi and russian and in my ears it could totally be some 80s underground band from the USSR, which is probably the reason why I like it.
Their latest record was released in december 2019 and is their best to date in my opinion.
Two songs of great rock'n roll punk, with a great early californian punk vibe,
a bit like a fast version of The Bags in Siberia! I really dig it.
Take some time to discover a bit more about this quite atypical scene.
