“It’s as phallic and sex-worn as Beelzebub’s hoof-stick and it’s soaked in a riff heavy glaze. Drag that sound with its glitter and leather and guts right on into the 21st century, and we have something like Midnight Devils…”
USA
“These are gluttonous fuck-hungry scum covered tracks that live muscle-bound, wire-tight and lean…”
Here be B-movie tones, old school punk n’roll, New York mess, indie gems and a sack full of trouble-sludge sounds.
“Last Wars have mixed up a cool chaos sound made of rasp and home brewed lo-fi synths. This is bedroom based punk for electro free-wheelers, all scratchy and rat-tailed and ragged…”
And once more it’s a bumper sized playlist. This time split into A-side and B-side…
“Let’s pretend it’s a decade and then some ago. !!!, Fischerspooner, Hot Chip and The Rapture are pumping their polyrhythmic pulchritude. Daft Punk is playing at Everybody’s House and New York once again is in vogue…”
“Hearing the switch between hardened and heart-broke, it surprises, draws in, pulls us close. We learn not to expect outright acts of defiance, but we glimpse at what goes on behind…”
This month’s playlist comes early. Here’s a worldwide blast of ‘tronica, postrock, aggression and indie with trance, rave and trap-clash thrown in…
In a no-nonsense, no dead-weight, zero-fat slab of techno-touched new wave electro, Matte Blvck deliver the gristle…
“In gentler moments we’re folk psychedelic, loose and unwound, almost gentle. For the rest there’s a network of reincarnations; Black Flag, Queens Of The Stoneage, Fugazi, Shellac…You can almost hear the dirt of the Desert Sessions calling amongst all the gumption and grit.”
Rats on the Run 