Blanche Blanche Blanche – Wooden Ball (NNA Tapes)
The future of adventurous US music can be found in the hinterlands. Don’t go to them; they’ll come to you.
Ensemble Pearl – Ensemble Pearl (Drag City)
Imagine a German Dirty Three. Of if you’re feeling cynical, imagine a 10-year-old boy pretending to be a monster, stomping all over Tokyo in a nuclear-induced haze.
Beat Mark – Howls Of Joy (Ample Play)
Here’s an official video. It’s better than Veronica Falls, I guess.
Hair Police – Mercurial Rites (Type)
Now this is some real grisly shit right here. Forget your Swans, forget your Big Black, forget your Danish bands of dubious intelligence
Eat Skull – III (Woodsist)
I’m a sucker for thinned-out drum machine percussion and keyboard lines that sound like old classroom films from my youth
the interview | Iceage want you to know that they’re not fascists
The idea was to not to try to, you know, glorify violence or anything, we just thought it was a fun idea
Iceage | an open letter to Louis Pattison
The only thing worse than a band deliberately putting violent/racist/fascist imagery out there is a writer like myself taking exception to it.
This blog kills fascists.
The way The Smiths once covered their sleeves in 60s references, the way Wu-Tang Clan embraced the language and iconography of Shaolin, the way Oasis loved The Beatles, that’s the relationship Iceage has with xenophobia and white supremacy — it may not be the window, but it’s damn sure the drapes.
Happy Jawbone Family Band – Tastes The Broom (Mexican Summer)
It’s too demented and gleeful to be offensive. It’s barely of this planet and doesn’t have a mean bone in its body.
Veronica Falls – Waiting For Something To Happen (Slumberland/Bella Union)
best listened to three minutes at a time. Like a bag of decades-old Smarties, an entire 36 minutes of consumption is guaranteed to sicken.
