POLLUTION CAPITALE

I'm a big fan of "time and place" comps that take an aural picture of what's going on in a certain city and/or scene, even if every song isn't your jam (it's a comp, what are the odds of liking everything?) there is probably something you dig, something you've never heard before, or something outside your comfort zone that gets your juices flowing. Pollution Capitale fills all three of those categories and then some - 

Things I Dig: 

PEUR PANIQUE, LOBSTER KILLED ME, YOUTH AVOIDERS

Things I've Never Heard Before: 

BIÉRE SOCIALE, SHAWN KEMP, BESOIN DEAD

Things Outside My Comfort Zone: 

ABJECT OBJECT, BIT PART, BLACK SHABBATH, JESSICA 93 (who dish out perhaps the best track on the tape, a methodical goth/post punk jam that should be mandatory listening for supposed fans of the genre/s)

There are also tracks that could be filed as Shit I Like A Lot: 

KRIGSKÅDE, AMER, TRASHLEY

Essentially no duds on this comp as long as you are open to new things. There's hardcore, synth punk, post-emo (yeah, that's a thing - I should know since I just made it up), raw punk, some tasteful blast beats and lots of riffs that you will wish you had written but were written by people who probably live really far from you. Seriously, a lot of riffs. This is what comps should be; welcome to Paris circa 2012.

POLLUTION CAPITALE