The founder of notorious British alternative punk band Country Teasers (which was somewhere between The Fall and Fat White Family), Ben Waller says about the beginning of his musical carrier: “I envied the guys in the school band. They didn’t invite me to join, so I formed my own band. I wanted to play the Cure’s guitar melodies, so that’s how I learnt, playing along. I learnt by ear. I had learnt piano to Grade 3, which I failed; I learnt sax for a year or two at school too. Fucking hated it. But I could play the solo at the end of Pink Floyd’s ‘Two Suns in the Sunset’, the tragic climax of The Final Cut.” * His next cut under his pseudonym The Rebel

„KROT” LP on Monofonus Press (US). It is just like the Country Teasers with minimal orchestration and experimental country songs. It was recorded in Texas. On the label’s site you can listen to the whole album for a limited time!

Free download: Country Teasers          The Rebel

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The promised „more grown up, well polished” new album by the acid beach boys Growlers. “There are some happy songs, some love songs, some creepy shit. There’s everything. We got funky.”

„Chinese Fountain” LP, CD, digital on Everloving (US), Fat Cat (EU) and Smack Face Records (Aus)

„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them,
‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it.”

Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective. or Deerhoof. Full album stream

KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat Rec

PJ Harvey, Breeders and Throwing Muses influenced garage rock by two Scottish girls

Honeyblood – 7″ and debut album on vinyl, CD and digital on Fat Cat (UK)

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Brussels-based Orphan Swords is a duo between Yannick Franck aka Räum, sound experimentalist & founder of Idiosyncratics label, and Maze, producer & Bozar Electronic Arts Festival curator. Industrial-slanted techno or new school industrial

Risk In A New Age – LP and digital on Desire Records (France)

„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them, ‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it’”

Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective.

KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat

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„We’re at that point where we just don’t give a fuck about anything. We want to get a bad review. A lot of bands start off with their punk record first and then just get weaker. We want to only get better and louder.” And to play rough noise rock, like some Amphetamine Reptile artists in the 90s, for example Killdozer, Chrome Cranks or Halo of Flies.

Unholy Two – ‘Talk About Hardcore’ LP on 12XU Records

„There are some happy songs, some love songs, some creepy shit. There’s everything. We got funky.”

The Growlers – Not. Psych! EP by Fat Cat

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Two idiotic versions of the song „Lambada” by the genial burlesque band Sieur et Dame

and Gregaldur, a guy who improvises on keyboard, guitar and looper and drinks beer simultaneously: La Lambaldur – feat. Charles Trenet. Trenet (1913-2001) was a French singer and songwriter. He had the greatest success between the late 30s and the mid 50s. Self-released split 7″

Free Download Gregaldur tracks

The Wytches are from Brigthon. Garage doom grunge trash or inversely

Two tracks from two singles. The first one is by Fat Possum (US), the second one is by HHH Records (UK)

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PJ Harvey, Breeders and Throwing Muses influenced bitter sweet garage pop by two Scottish girls

Honeyblood‘s debut single by Fat Cat

TRAAMS from the English countryside. Noisey indie grungy garage rock. „Someone said that we sounded like The Smashing Pumpkins on ketamine!”

Jack from Ladder EP by Fat Cat Records: 100 cassettes or digital

The Scotch Clandestine Records is the home of the various excellent experimental and electronic music. Their recent publication is the new Bestial Mouths album. The band is known not from the easy synth pop songs. Their motto to indicate the way: „our native language a death rattle”

Vatic Vision from self-titled LP by Clandestine