Piccadilly records Wrote:
SCORCHING DEBUT ALBUM FROM THIS MELBOURNE SYNTH-PUNK SUPERGROUP
Featuring members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and The UV Race, the band known as Total Control originally came together due to a shared love of minimal and electronic-based punk music. Over the course of four 7" releases, their music ran the gamut of electronic post-punk, from dark new wave to jarring noise to austere cold wave. Their debut album, Henge Beat, was recorded and produced by guitarist Mikey Young (Eddy Current) in the Australian summer of 2011 and has recently been released on vinyl in the US on the Iron Lung label. This CD edition is exclusive to Fuse and sees the band achieving an excellent cohesion of the sounds from each of their previous singles. Total Control contain just the right balance of abandon and discipline. You need comparisons? Think: Devo, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Suicide, Swell Maps, Screamers, etc.
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Vancouver rockers Sex Church blast into their first truely long player (last year's sexcellent "Six Songs By Sex Church" clocking in at thirty minutes falling somewhere in between an EP and an LP) on Load Records. Hot off of the recent bump in notoriety that comes from releasing a HoZac Hookup Klub 7", one of the best in this recent batch by our reckoning, the group do not disappoint with this foray into the limier light. The tunes here are bottom-heavy, scuzzed-out, feedback-layered garage with runout flourishes of repetitive drone in places and phased spaced-out spaces driving it all home on spacecraft to your inner-mindspace. All of it comes from the end of some block in Vancouver where the bad kids sling-shotted pennies into the streetlights so they could hide from the cops. Kind of a bummer trip, but a succinct enough snapshot of a specific time and place that the word "beautiful" still applies. We're throwing around comparisons like "darker bummer Wipers (think "Youth of America" era)" and "more riffin' Kitchen's Floor" and "a Puffy Areolas running at half-speed," and "an apathetic Mantles", which amounts to "thing this is, thing this isn't," meaning what we've really got on our hands here is "Kind of like a Sexier Churchier Sex Church." Given how much we've enjoyed everything these guys have put out so far, that's a very good thing. We will no doubt be spinning this one through the end of 2011 and far into the future.
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Fiends! Ghouls! Creeps! In the grand tradition of Frankie Stein and His Ghouls and The Deadly Ones, Thee Cormans present Halloween Record w/ Special Effects—a bona fide Halloween rock ’n’ roll album just in time for the only holiday that matters. The Southern Californian biker / surf instrumental combo has been bashing out their brand of Davie-Allan-and-the-Arrows-meets-The-Ventures-on-meth thrash for several years now. Theirs is a sound informed by scratched-up ’60s instrumental records, KBD punk singles and exploitation B-movies chock full of monsters, bikers and mayhem. What this group of weirdos does to the surf instrumental genre is the same as what The Mummies did to Pacific Northwest ’60s rock back in the ’90s—they speed it up, drag it through the mud, pour a can of politically incorrect attitude over the top and call it a pie. In this case, the pie is filled with rubber bats, plastic fangs and novelty shrunken heads. Halloween Record w/ Special Effects will make you shriek, rattle and roll! These are spine-chilling sounds guaranteed to make you shiver. Flesh-ripping guitar playing! Skull-pulverizing drum beats! Gore-spattering bass lines! Spooky, hair-raising sound effects! The bloody horror of this record is positively sinister. You will hate yourself if you miss it! In The Red is not legally responsible for death caused by heart failure or fright as a result of listening to Halloween Record w/ Special Effects. In other words, this record is not for sissies.
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I do try and avoid hyperbole nowadays, but this is fucking brilliant in my humble. I'm a big Ron House fanboy though and his vocals are bit marmite. Think Daniel Johnston fronting a garage band. My favourite record of the year so far.
Volcanic Tongue Wrote:
Ron House is one of the great, instantly recognisable voices to come out of underground USA. His work with Great Plains and Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments never failed to hand you your ass on a plate while the remarkable compilation of stray early activity that came out on Old Age/No Age and was reissued by Columbus Discount – Blind Boy In The Back Seat – was a dazzling compendium of under the counter culture rama-lama. Psandwich is Ron’s latest group and they marry his amazing vocals – vocals that get your back up as immediately as Iggy Pop or Genesis P-Orridge – with a killer avant garage attack. House still has a great feel for lampooning the culture that birthed and supports him and here he sets his sights on the ‘Columbus sound’ as well as hilarious scene politics, classic psychedelia (any track that references both the 13th Floor Elevators and Bubble Puppy has the keys to my record collection), jailtime and – inevitably – plenty of drugs. The band themselves sound phenomenal, with an attack that’s somewhere between classic Flesheaters, NY punk and destructo Cleveland rock ala The Pagans. There’s a particular mood I get in that only the Columbus groups can unlock and this is a damn-near note-perfect soundtrack to lazy afternoons reading back issues of Creem and Black To Comm and sipping beer and falling asleep with the TV on.
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