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Gonçalo Salgado ‘Cobra’
Portugal’s Eye For An Eye Recordings has stood shoulder to shoulder with kindred labels Chicago Research or Manchester’s Natural Sciences for distributing hard-nosed electronic music replete with post-punk grit and heady washes of combative ambience. With a string of acclaimed releases by L.F.T., Boris Barksdale and Cardinal & Nun, label founder Gonçalo Salgado has offered equally bruising…
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Onyon ‘Last Days on Earth’
There’s a skewed, upside-down take on weird Americana that hovers subtly throughout Onyon‘s sticky post-punk jangle. While hailing from Leipzig, half-digested country twangs and the soak of Akron, Ohio’s synth-slicked garage heritage permeated intriguingly with their wiry minimal punk on last year’s self-titled EP, evoking dusky, Midwestern prairie expanse as exemplified on the eerie bluegrass of…
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Gutter Pig ‘Perv’
According to Urban Dictionary, a gutter pig is “a person considered so nasty and vile that calling them just a pig isn’t enough because they belong in the gutter with faeces and public waste”. Such wretched depths of squalor have provided furtive inspiration for Sydney noise provocateur Ryan Durrington. Donning a pig mask and meshing…
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Badge Grabber ‘Fallopian Tube Amplifier’
The darkest corners of Bandcamp have been littered with a myriad of lo-fi electro punks across the last few years, plenty fantastic, some charitably labelling themselves as ‘noise punk’ as a convenient excuse for directionless, derivative dirge. Thankfully Californian 20-year-old Riley Ponce has been cutting the wheat from the chaff since 2021 with a string…
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The Toads ‘In The Wilderness’
Some records come fully loaded with their own little world that pulls you in with beckoning power straight from the first track. Think Stan Ridgway’s Wall of Voodoo taking you on a highway ride on the California/Nevada border rolling past roadhouse bars and kitschy casinos, or Lou Reed’s urban reportings of New York’s seamy subterranean…
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Yokel ‘Grockle Vision’
A banal snapshot of an overcast Devon seashore from behind a drab mobile unit isn’t the immediate creative direction one thinks of when considering crunchy industrial new beat, but intriguing thematic schisms of cutting-edge electronic music alongside a perennial focus on the South West’s culture and folklore at its most affectionately moribund (as captured by…
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