Chicago mathpunks, Lower Automation, have based their self-titled record around a single premise: let’s make the weirdest record we can. They originally made 12 demos,
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Et On Tuera Tous Les Affreux – Mange Tes Morts (Different Kitchen Records / Toxic Wotsit et al, 2021)
Et On Tuera Tous Les Affreux are a queer punx band from Caen, France. According to the Toxic Wotsit website, they play what they call
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7in and EP round-up: June 2021 (part 1)
The Dumpies – Drunk Dial Records 7in Series vol. 8 (Drunk Dial Records) It’s always an exciting and / or interesting time whenever a new
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Big|Brave – Vital (Southern Lord, 2021)
Quebecois minimalists, Big | Brave are back with their fifth album, Vital, which also marks their fifth release with lovers of all things heavy Southern
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Burning Flag – Matador (self released, 2021)
Burning Flag hail from the Halifax / Calderdale area. They describe themselves thusly: Spewed forth from the blackened mill towns of Northern England, Burning Flag
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The Raging Nathans – Waste My Heart (Rad Girlfriend Records / Brassneck Records, 2021)
The Raging Nathans are seemingly a machine that refuses to stop. Less than a year since their last barn-burner, Oppositional Defiance, these guys have kept
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Bugger Banksy – Roy D Hacksaw (Earth Island Books, 2021)
I’ve come to expect great things from Earth Island Books since their inception the other year, so let’s see how the latest work of fiction
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Choices Made – Reason for Conflict (Cursed Blessings, 2021)
Gabe from Cursed Blessings has been doing a great job of pushing me on this. He knew that I needed to hear this new joint
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Come Closer – Pretty Garbage (Pirate’s Press Records, 2021)
I suppose I’ll start this off with a spurious statement of sorts: this is I think the big surprise release of 2021. Well, in so
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Ian Glasper – The Scene That Would Not Die (Earth Island Books, 2021)
The chances are that if you’ve had at least a passing interest in the history of punk rock upon these benighted shores, that you’ll have
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