EVIL TWINS

 

You're going to find a touch of THE SPITS, a little bit of irreverent art/post punk, a splash of DEVO and someone's gonna sprinkle MODLY PEACHES over the top. You're gonna find an Oakland bass/drum freak punk duo making the sounds they want to make and making them the way they want to make them. Remember when STILLSUIT and SISTER FUCKER ruled The Bay? This might have just been a time in my mind, but cranking "White Room" takes me back to that time. It was a good time - EVIL TWINS are a good time. 

EVIL TWINS

PLANET EARTH // PANIC BONER

 

Beautifully damaged subtle (improvisational) noise from Olympia's PLANET EARTH backed with damaged saxophone/guitar/drum/vocal free psych/noise/jazz by way of total (casual) sonic assault from Missoula's PANIC BONER. Maybe this should be on the live blog but you'd never see/hear it if I dropped it there, so....spend your Saturday wisely, punk. PANIC BONER might be the best band name of all time.

LIVE AT LE VOYEUR

BERKAH SENTOSA

 

Just two songs today - one ridiculously catchy number that could almost find its way onto Too Tough To Die if it weren't for the Sing The Sorrow caliber chorus, and then a live cover of one of the kitschiest RAMONES cuts. 

TAMAN LAWANG

CAPITAL CRIME

 

The cover is so gloriously sick, and still the contents will blow you away. Blistering, blasting and intense fastcore/grind circa 2004....then they drop crust leads into the mix and it sounds so fukkn natural. This is a release that will require repeated listenings to fully consume - "Merdeka," "Bad Luck," "Against" and the devestating "Jiwa Yang Telah Mati" lead the pack, but there are twenty songs here and CAPITAL CRIME do not waste a single second. Dual vocal maximum energy mania.....and the cover is so sick.

MASSA BERKUASA

GAIA GALAXY

 

At the risk of repeating myself: Always check the bargain bins. Kelsey checked the tape bin at a Savers thrift store and came up with a grip of Filipino pop and this gorgeous gem from late '80s San Francisco. Hard driving funk, blues rock and residual hippie jams co-mingle effortlessly with era appropriate pop/rock here, yet the result is something I struggle to describe. This could be the bar band in an episode of Rockford Files just as easily as they could be playing in a drugged out cult revival tent...listen to the title track "All Of Our Love" and tell me I'm wrong.

ALL OF OUR LOVE

FREE VOICE

 

I do not understand why any band of any era and/or genre would think that this artwork was a good idea. And then you listen to FREE VOICE and somehow it all makes sense - it's still a bad idea but it makes sense. Absolute '90s melodic hardcore but from modern Indonesia. Think Ontario's NOAH FENCE (the Canadian Ontario, to be clear) or early AFI - all the shit from the early Fat Wreck / NOFX tree that influenced thousands of bands around the world. Including FREE VOICE, apparently. Seriously dudes, the artwork sucks.

LET'S THINK CLEARLY FOR A WHILE

The dude in the DISRUPT shirt really just reinforces the '90s vibes. 

BARREN SOIL

 

Quintessential UK anarcho crust from Vancouver - right down to the Celtic knots in the art. Apocalyptic and dystopian stench with an ear turned towards '90s Japanese hardcore...and yeah, it's every bit as essential as that (brief) description suggests. 

ALL PATHS LEAD TO DARKNESS