[engl] “OK, so this one required a fair old loosening of the ego to put out there. But sometimes you’ve just gotta make yourself as small as an ant and let go… These are recordings which were never supposed to see the light of day. But here they are: loose as; sloppy as. Hopefully endearing. In truth, an insane amount of effort and love went into these songs and I feel buoyed by sharing them. I’ve shed my skin, I’m a butterfly, I’m on fire. Stu xoxox”

[engl] 500 double lps ON BLUE / GREEN VINYL VOLUME 1 IS sea blue VOLUME 2 IS army green Recorded between 2011 - 2020 by King Gizz Mastered by Joseph Carra Cover design by Jason Galea

[engl] “OK, so this one required a fair old loosening of the ego to put out there. But sometimes you’ve just gotta make yourself as small as an ant and let go… These are recordings which were never supposed to see the light of day. But here they are: loose as; sloppy as. Hopefully endearing. In truth, an insane amount of effort and love went into these songs and I feel buoyed by sharing them. I’ve shed my skin, I’m a butterfly, I’m on fire. Stu xoxox”

[engl] WEEED is an American biocosmic rock n roll band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2009. The band consists of Gabriel Seaver (guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards), Mitchy Fosnaugh (guitar, vocals, flute), John Goodhue (drums), Evan Franz (drums), and Ian Hartley (percussion). They are known for their cathartic, rhythm heavy live shows and for blending progressive compositions with improvisation and trance. Do You Fall? will be their seventh full length release. Music trance, letting go, relinquishment, releasing, catharsis... these themes are represented in the title. Falling can be seen as a foundational experience of being human and learning to walk on this Earth. It is associated with grief and loss, as well as new love. This theme of falling is deeply tied to the context in which this music came to be. Sometimes songs may serve as the catalyst and the medicine for emotional transformation.

[engl] Organ driven 60's style garage rock from members of Mondo Topless & the Creamers! A Side is a cover of the Wailers classic.

[engl] All caught up with last August’s blast of herky-jerky darkness from Knowso? Don’t get too comfy, now - nine months later, they’re back with another eight hits of visceral smarts and discombobulating fury. Sounding, as ever, like Big Black firing pellets of snot at their Cleveland forebears Devo, ‘Rare Auld Trip/Psychological Garden’ finds them picking up where they left off with ‘Specialtronics Green Vision’. This being the best part of a year on from that excellent debut, though, they sound wiser, snarkier and more pissed off than ever before - good news all round, then. Opener ‘Boredom In The Valley’ reintroduces their signature tricks but feels more focused; a sub-two minute blast of staggered beats powered by the gnarliest-sounding bass this side of Bob Weston, and a disaffected vocal styling that you’d be tempted to call nihilist if you couldn’t sense the number of fucks given beneath the impassive facade. They pick up the pace with ‘Staring At The Spiral’, which almost sounds like the Buzzcocks unravelling at the seams while a Vogon watches on, before crashing into the smash’n’grab antics of ‘The Plants’ - one of the record’s clear highlights and a frantic, dizzying trip. Along the way are enough bon mots and smartarse quips too make you wonder if they’re taking this as seriously as they should. Let’s not spoil the highlights in advance, but if you’re already on board with Knowso, you’ll know they’re simultaneously utterly hilarious and unquestionably, deadly serious. ‘I could never be friends with a fucker such as you,’ they snarl disgustedly on another of the record’s instant classics, but by this point you’ll already have given your heart over to this most delirious of post-punk/noise-rock hybrids. As the closing cacophony of voices on ‘4th Wonder’ will no doubt drive into your brain with overwhelming force, ‘Rare Auld Trip/Psychological Garden’ (you pays your money and you takes your choice with the title, presumably) is not to be missed.

[engl] Ever since Rocket From The Tombs gave way to Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys, Cleveland’s been producing endless shots of adrenaline courtesy of the wildest, weirdest sounds around. Knowso may not have much sonically in common with their city’s elder statesmen, but they’re following in the same spiritual tradition, blasting away with a take on punk rock that’s tense, spiky and powerful. Following on from their ‘Look At The Chart’ 12” for California’s premier trash-rock stable Neck Chop, and a 7” for Total Punk, ‘Specialtronics Green Vision’ is their debut album - and as full-lengths go, it’s a helluva first offering. Cuts like ‘Calamine’ echo the likes of Devo in their jerked-out fury, but whereas there’s a whole raft of slopcore bands in recent years who’ve focused on the other-worldly side of Mothersbaugh and co., Knowso rub their angular tendencies against clenched-teeth riffage and a brutal sense of righteous outrage. The effect is somewhere in between Steve Albini’s more pointed rackets, Black Flag in both ‘weirdo freakout’ and ‘perfect slice of fury’ modes, and (unexpectedly) even the screwy rhetoric of Welsh wonders Future Of The Left. They have a killer CV - Knowso boast members of Cruelster, Perverts Again and Cloud Nothings among their line-up - but still, this is a record that sounds everything and nothing like those bands, with a healthy number of bonus ingredients thrown in. ‘Peaceful And Extinct’ shows them at their smartarse best, bouncing between (hey, bear with me) tasteful riffology and sheer power, while ‘Digital God’ is just a heads-down thrill ride. But hey, it’s a record full of surprises and wonder, like ice cream topped with barbed wire, and it’s one of the best things you’ll hear all year. Insert your own ‘think so? I knowso’ joke here; I’d write one myself but I’m too busy putting this on repeat play for the rest of forever. Will Fitzpatrick.

[engl] The three piece strikes again with a record that represents the band itself : beauty, chaos, tension and relief. This ep is the result of numerous jams where the drums/bass remain frenetic, and the guitar/vocals stand impassive in front of what could look like a big beautiful mess. The band has proudly kept the same team as it’s previous LP to work on that new material: this has been recorded at le K7 studio with Franck Molin, mastered by Renaud de Saint Vaast, and cover designed by the mighty Chufy.

[engl] Introducing KÜKEN from Hamburg, Germany. This is their first record, a two song 45, garage punkrock without any bullshit to sidetrack you from the impact. Guitar, bass, drums, two vocal lines all the time. Chris and Philipp are also playing in THE KIDNAPPERS (Rip Off Records, Alien Snatch Records). Limited to 500 copies, one sided, cardboard sleeve. Nuff Said.

[engl] Punkrock from Hamburg. Loud, fast and simple = good. Take a sip of this if you dare.

[engl] Melbourne’s soul-surf garage party animals La Bastard return with their long awaited third studio album, Trouble. Recorded at Soundpark Studios in Melbourne with Andrew “Idge” Hehir (Swedish Magazines, Dave Graney, Darling Downs) and mixed by Sam Lowe (Eaten By Dogs), Trouble is La Bastard’s most realised work to date. A more personal, soul influenced affair, the band adds richness to their tight four-piece sound with complex arrangements and guest performances from a range of Melbourne’s most talented musicians. Featuring guest performances from Chris Russell (Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk), Joe Cope (Big Smoke), Zoe K, Kate Alexander (Junk Horses, Ute Root), Rich Davies and many more!

[engl] The La De Das were a leading New Zealand rock band of the 1960s and early 1970s. Formed in New Zealand in 1963 (as The Mergers), they enjoyed considerable success in both New Zealand and Australia until their split in 1975. Here their first LP, a long time awaited reissue, this is maybe one of the best R&B/ Garage records out of New Zealand and Australia during the 60s. Tunes like '' How Is The Air Up There'' or '' On Top Of The World'' are among the best in the genre. Its a masterpiece from 1966, for every rock, garage or mod fans around the globe, this is the best you can get. Has two bonus tracks!!!

[engl] Unearthed gold from Providence RI circa 2000...repetitive heavy grooves featuring fried out bass and drum echo-delicacies...never before released

[engl] Lady Jane is a French band based in Rennes city, Brittany. “In Pieno!” is their second album through Beast Records and their music is still a kind of weird dirty psychedelic blues rock lost somewhere between the early Rolling Stones and the Gun Club. This album is rawest than their first release “The Youngest Was The Least Loved” and is still something like a fuzzy throbbing vicious psychedelic rock’n’roll blues.

[engl] "Alone and Alright" is the second LP of LAME on ALIEN SNATCH! RECORDS and follow ups two 12" Singles. Ten songs recorded by Massimiliano Moccia (MOVIE STAR JUNKIES) and masterd by Tim Warren (CRYPT) with an exclusive artwork by french illustrator Marie Pierre Brunel. LAME is outstanding Colombian drum girl and chanteuse galore Maria Mallol Moya and man-between-many-dimensions Stefano Isaia (vocals, guitar, MOVIE STAR JUNKIES) and Massimo Socca (guitar, CAVE DOGS and and 90´s Italian garage punk pioneers TWO BO´s MANIAC). They drag us deeper and deeper into their forest of darkness, when the needle drop on the record it´s a drung binge loop of bloodloss and pumping veins. Death cult garage post-punk with poisoned easy-listening harmonies and life prolonging rhythms evoking unseen roads through swamp rock winter nights. Stomp to their blues, beware the quicksand and pop swirls of hysteria right next. This should be the soundtrack of an upcoming, last TRUE DETECTIVE series in devastated neo-noir setup. Watch LAME all-over the place - at least Europe! They love the stage for real.

[engl] LAME is a blues lo-fi punk three-piece from Torino, Italy featuring Massimo Scocca from 90's Italian garage bands CAVE DOGS and TWO BO's MANIACS, Colombian drummer Maria Mallol Moya and Stefano Isaia of MOVIE STAR JUNKIES. Follow them to the den of iniquity, where Satan tells you bugs, goats and witches how to obey, be the speaking choir to the DWARVES intoning DEAD MOON! Cut this on a record! Jump between folk pop heaven and garage hell! It´s the dark, thick blood that is meant to put out the hellfire blaze. A weird mix of noise punk madness, lonely ballads, country sickness and stomping blues. "The lame shall enter first" is named and illustrated after the 60´s American essayist Flannery O´Connor and one of her shorts stories. Cover art by Tim Kerr of MONKEYWRENCH and JACK O' FIRE fame. Mastering done by Crypt recs. head honcho Tim Warren! Fans of GORIES, an on the other side of the street PUSSY GALORE / HUNCHES rip out a big part of your bible and eat the pages, wait at the gates, the LAME shall enter first!