Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa / Auckland, NZ band Ringlets have a new 7″ and digital single out via Leather Jacket Records and Flying Nun Records. It follows the band’s excellent debut, self-titled album of last year. ‘New Life‘ jitters and jerks like a lost Parquet Courts single, all twitchy nerve ends before the verse smooths out the cracks with Leith Towers’ melodic lead vocal and chugging … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Ringlets – New Life
Formed in 2023 while all three members were flatting together in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ, Family Band take influence from Chicago noise rock and late 00’s Trans-Tasman post-punk. Today they share ‘Large Dirt Piles’, the first single from their debut EP The Dog Box (out digitally on April 30 via Sunreturn). It’s a minimal, repetitive and visceral slab of post punk, rock deconstruction that brings to mind Big Black, Die! Die! Die!, METZ and some of the … Continue reading AOTEAROA’S FAMILY BAND RELEASE POST PUNK/NOISE ROCK SINGLE AHEAD OF NEW EP
I’m loving the sound of this new single from Manchester quintet splint. There are shades of Black Country New Road, Sonic Youth, Courtney Barnettt and Life Without Buildings in their sound. On ‘145‘, tumbling notes, both frantic and meditative unfurl over rock drums. The whole thing builds into a brisk melancholy with the vocal of Giulia Bonometti countering and balancing the nervy electricity of the guitars. … Continue reading SPLINT CREATE A HOLISTIC POST-PUNK WORLD ON NEW SINGLE ‘145’
Interesting angles in aggressive music is what floats our boat and Kent UK trio Scowl tick that box with this track, their second single, charmingly titled ‘Lord Porno’. In the punk-fuelled chorus the widescreen wall of distorted guitars crash and careen between the speakers while the rhythm section ushers the song along in the verses with a rolling, tumbling post-punk feel. Over it all, the … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Scowl – Lord Porno
Pummelling is an apt description of this new post-punk track from UK duo Torrid Horror (Caine and Maud). Across seven minutes they dispatch frantic organ-led ‘carnival in hell’ riffs and rhythms while the singer howls and barks across the maddening crowds. At its mid point it pauses to get it’s sonic breath back, inhaling, hands on knees before the waves settle amid a spoken word … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Torrid Horror – To Tear At The Sea
“Pull your head in ya flamin’ galah” are the first words you hear on this new track from Sydney band 100. The first release on the new label Endless Recordings, founded by Bad Dreems guitarist Alex Cameron, it rips and snarls like an inner-city delinquent. Part belligerence, part studied sneer. It reminds us a bit of much missed bands like The Scare, and Witch Hats … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: 100 – Psych
Nocturnal Projections were one of the finest post-punk bands in New Zealand in the early 1980s and now Dais Records have worked with them to reissue all of their recorded work across two releases. “Complete Studio Recordings” comprises the band’s three original highly sought-after vinyl releases on one record fully remastered. Formed in Stratford, near New Plymouth, New Zealand in 1981, Nocturnal Projections was the … Continue reading REISSUE NEWS: Nocturnal Projections (2018)
You don’t hear of many great Spanish bands (though I’m sure there are plenty), especially in the post punk vein. Chin Yi popped up in the DS inbox and are pretty impressive in their eclecticism, sonic range and embrace of melody and dissonance. The good news is that they have their album Wo available to download for free on Bandcamp. Continue reading ds recommends… Chin Yi
Doubtful Sounds 