Slovenly Recordings
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It’s Autumn, 2015 A.D., and in Greece there is insufficient cause for celebration. The country is in economic ruin, and the natives are restless. The Volos tribe known as BAZOOKA is miffed to say the least, yet they say the most. They deliver the verbiage in their mother tongue, poisonous and pissed, for the duration of their scathing second LP “Useless Generation.”Visit product page →
These eleven tracks of turbulent, psychedelic punk brilliantly commandeer the unique sense of youthful contempt of what surely must be the current global vortex of corruption and frustration, yet BAZOOKA sallies forth with dutiful abandon.
The sessions that produced “Useless Generation” have yielded a sonic result that would humble the mighty Zeus. Unnerving banshee howls drench the soundscape, surreal, and at times, miraculously humorous.
Often stiff, militant and urgent, this newest effort makes no qualms with slathering a syrupy dose of synthesizers bending around the crest of the lunar rising, utilizing reverb soaked woodwinds that spiral down from a 5th flight, and employing totemic canter handed down through the millennia while remaining constantly searing.
Tracklisting:
1. Useless Generation
2. Achristi Genia, Soul Vessels
3. Psihothikes, The Screen
4. Othoni, Wild Nature
5. Agria Fisi, Repetition
6. Epanalipsi, A Woman
7. Gineka, Lie
8. Psema, All Within You Fits
9. Olos Mesa Su Horai, They Travel
10. Taksidevun, Magic Fingers
11. Mageika Dachtila, Tied To Your Bed
12. Demenos Sto Krevati Su -
The Black Gladiator / Slovenly brotherhood is in the business of pushing punk crudity like it’s going out of style (it ain’t), and with this debut LP by Michigan’s CHOKE CHAINS there’s no mistaking our intentions.Visit product page →
Thomas Jackson Potter, he of ‘90s Crypt Records legends BANTAM ROOSTER and an original member of DIRTBOMBS, has concocted another nasty recipe for disaster with this latest unit featuring The Millionaire (ex-CHINESE MILLIONAIRES) on drums, Lindsey Crappor, (ex-NO BAILS) on 2nd guitar, and bass handled by a ballistic warlock named Chizz.
Taboo tackling cuts like “Let’s Try Suicide” and “Rock Paper Rapist” guarantee deep emotional scarring, and the album’s opener “Safe Word” thrusts supercharged negativity transferral with terminal raunch.
This is a cocksure debut from a battle-scarred crew, saturated with hostile imagery and the hyper-aggressive delivery you’d expect from pedigree of this caliber.
Tracklisting:
1. Safe Word
2. Moisture technician
3. Cosmic Shadow
4. Drag Queen Cartoon
5. Cracked Dracula
6. Let’s Try Suicide
7. Trinity Sue
8. Uptight
9. Random Number Generator
10. She Collects Calendars
11. Rock Paper Rapist
12. Choke Chain -
Sold outSatisfying a youthful obsession with early KISS and Motley Crüe, then discovering the fortunate truth of The Dictators and Ramones, DIRTY FENCES have finally slammed into the Slovenly path with the 'Full Tramp' LP.Visit product page →
Brooklyn is the launching pad, and following a previous full length, a few singles and a few transcontinental tours, Dirty Fences got their shit on lockdown. 'Full Tramp' has got the biggest balls of them all, and each song is study in what makes a song just right without ever losing sight of what makes an album worth listening to.
But when it comes down to it, it's the really their slime factor that got us on board, and this record is the festering manifestation of your love encrusted bed sheets headed to the wash.
Tracklisting:
Deep In Your Heart
1. Judy (Don't Go)
2. Give Me a Kiss
3. Just Can't Wait
4. These Freaks
5. Heartbeater
6. Endless Party
7. High SChool RIP
8. Rain
9. Full Tramp -
Visit product page →It is with great gusto that Slovenly Recordings thrusts the 2nd LP from San Francisco’s SCRAPER squarely into the jaws of the desperate.
Produced by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Blind Shake) at The Dock in Sacramento, “Misery” is an exercise in simplistic, tightly controlled negativity that crushes the fine line between panic and frenzy into oblivion.
A rapid attack of artillery-mimicking snare and bass heavy hunch is the canon, wrought in a Bay Area sewer and reveling in a verminous infestation of post-punk pulse: think WIRE versus THE SPITS in a Shaolin death trap. Necessary indictments of dot-com Silicon scum manifest in “Rodent” while “Clones” and “Reaction” drive the point with unparalleled frustration and an uncanny ability to deliver remarkable rock’n’rattle.
SCRAPER administers a deliberate slug to the gut, never fucking around with pretty boy gimmicks and pretense, and “Misery” is the rabid battle cry.
Tracklisting:
1. Misery
2. Rats In The House
3. Animal
4. Under My Tongue
5. Clones
6. Rodent
7. Reaction
8. Panic
9. Blue Velvet
10. Trash Can
11. Nine Minutes In Hell -
Sold outSeth Sutton is the primary UE punk in question, and 'Singles: 2011-2014' compiles the best tracks from their out-of-print singles from cool-assed labels like Goodbye Boozy (Italy), Tic Tac Totally and Nashville's Dead, to name a few.Visit product page →
The electrostatic shock of 'The Moves' is here, and it sounds like the LSD is just about to take over, only you've been chewing on a tab that you never quite wrangled out of its aluminum foil wrapper.
Fatter, lo-fi decimating sounds abound with tracks like 'Bloody Ripper,' and 'I Hate The Kids' (feat. TY SEGALL) makes an appearance here as well.
This is a fully realized set that somehow works even better than flipping through your Eaters'7' stack, which is likely incomplete. . .
Tracklisting:
1. Dope Clones
2. Difficult
3. American Cars
4. The Moves
5. Proper Conduct
6. Plague Is Vague
7. Addicted to the Blade
8. Starvation Blues Number Two
9. I Hate the Kids
10. Linear Movement
11. Bloody Ripper
12. Mother Earth
13. Integrated Circuit -
This unique compilation comes in a matte finished gatefold sleeve with photos and full liner notes. CD in digipack with booklet. Slovenly has ganged up with Black Gladiator to “KBD the 1990s” with a tore-up double LP called WE’RE LOUD: 90s Cassette Punk Unknowns.Visit product page →
What we got here is 33 scuzzed out tracks by 19 unknown bands from micro-released and unreleased cassettes recorded across the USA between 1993 & 1999 -totally off the radar and outsider as fuck- capturing a zeitgeist through one perverted addict’s travels. Jaime Paul Lamb was at the helm of the whole thing, forming bands and recording them and others’ on his Yamaha MT50, and acquiring similar tapes from other punk vermin in between American halfway house pit stops.
Some of the most completely tasteless and juvenile swill we’ve ever heard lurks in these grooves, many of them standing out as legit great lost classics: THE FUCKING PIGS paean to crotch-rot “Herpes Attack” is here, as is their proud proclamation “(I’m a) Date Rapist.” Hell, two songs on the first LP alone have “C U Next Tuesday” in the title thanks to MEGA & THE NYRDZ and THE BARF BAGS. Still, there’s more than just obnoxious sputum here.
Vegas’ LES FLEURS DU MAL kick down two bona fide classic power-pop tracks, THE DROP OUTS (one of a ton of combos at the time with that moniker - this one from Costa Mesa) dump a Flipper-fied sludge bomb in “She’s a Jyrk,” VAN BUREN WHEELS romp and stomp with savage 60s style Pacific Northwest garage, and LUKEY & THE CHICKEN SLITZ and OBLONG BOXERS both make with bizarro black tar burners. We couldn’t make this shit up! But we’re glad somebody did.
Tracklisting:
Mega & The Nyrdz "Rip Your Cunt"
Mega & The Nyrdz "I Lurk"
Pink Fingers "Theme Song"
Pink Fingers "Man In Pain"
Dismalt "Coach Blake"
Riky & The Buttz "I'm Poor"
Riky & The Buttz "We're Riky & The Buttz"
Magister Ludi "We're Loud"
Les Fleurs Du Mal "Look Into My Eyes"
Les Fleurs Du Mal "Sweet, Sweet Satan"
Drop Outs "She's A Jyrk"
Drop Outs "Don't Know"
Van Buren Wheels "C'mon And Be Mine"
Barf Bags "I'm A Sissy"
Barf Bags "Community Cunt"
Barf Bags "Beat It Up"
Crawlers "Black Monday"
Crawlers "I'm Gonna End It Tonight"
Crawlers "I'm Gonna Kill You"
Fucking Pigs "(I'm A) Date Rapist"
Fucking Pigs "Herpes Attack"
Heck Yeahs "I'm Better Than You"
Heck Yeahs "Headless Clown (I Am, I Am)"
Heck Yeahs "I Always Hated You"
Lumps "I'm Always Wrong"
Mid City Nuisance "I Go Creep"
Lukey & The Chicken Slitz "Johnny's Packing A Gun"
Oblong Boxers "Have You Ever Had A Guy Roll Up On You"
Rosebuds "Destructor"
People's Court "We're Gonna Die"
Winners "1,2, You're A Whore"
Winners "Jenny Was A Christian"
Winners "Johnny's Night Out" -
If any punk album in 2016 is going to transcend description it’s this debut long player from KCMO’s WET ONES.Visit product page →
I can tell you that the band is made up of ex-members of FAG COP who released some of the most aurally offensive and insipid shit this side of THE FATALS and GRABBIES, and more recently, WHITE LOAD. There’s a couple MOUTHBREATHERS in there too.
Talk about an underappreciated band. One of ‘em shelled out some seriously disgusting cuts here with “I Live Life Reckless” and “Static,” and after a hundred spins they are finally starting to sound somewhat palatable.
How did they even make this record? Shouldn’t they be broken up already? Nothing this screwy ever lasts for more than a few minutes these days. They assure me that they’re the best of friends and are immune to implosion, but this is not the sound of a trustworthy group.
Oh well. For now this gets the coveted Black Gladiator / Slovenly seal of approval, and we’ll whip their asses raw ‘til they give us more.
Tracklisting:
1. Waaah Waaah Waaah
2. Isolation, Casino
3. I’m Stuck
4. Jeeze
5. I Live Life Reckless
6. Rocket
7. Simulator
8. Static
9. Get Lost
10. Thumbs Down Syndrome
11. Get Me Off
12. Gimme Suction
13. Marjorie Anne Curlette
