Singles of the Week (43//24)

1) Heavy Lungs – Get Out

 

News from Bristol, UK post-punk / indie-rock band... 

'Get Out' is the first single from the forthcoming album 'Caviar'releases April 18, 2025

 

Features furious fretwork and drumming that would blow the cobwebs off your Nutribullet and the sand into everyone’s Pina Colada. Repetitive and rhythmic they generate incredible energy, and it’s hard to imagine four walls containing a frustrated Danny and his desire to escape whatever forces are attempting to contain him. The others echo him in a group, gang, terrace-like chant. Rather than a straight flashback to The Sex Pistols and 1977, this is amped-up, revved-up UK punk. 

Rather than local predecessors, like The Cortinas, it’s a Cortinas 45 pitched way past plus 8… and the B-line’s far groovier. There’s a wigged-out theremin in there too, emitting weird wah-wah licks. 

Filmed by George Garratt Video Editing by Lee Kiernan Type Graphics - Charlotte Gosch, Studio Other Types Location - Mannequin Film Studio, Grantham 

 

single releases October 22, 2024 

 

(digital, video - FatCat)

2) Abdomen – Yes, I don't Know

 

 

News from Netherlands noise-rock / post-punk band... 

 

Opening with fragile, picking, floating in reverb, for a second, you’re fooled into thinking that you’re listening to a Robin Guthrie / Cocteau Twins tune. Then serrated, cyclical slashing 'serenades' Peter Van Beets’ words that are narrate the awful, crushing, gaping hole, of a lover’s passing. The cut climaxing in cathartic / agonised cries of “I can’t turn around!”. When asked about their often trance-inducing rhythms and riffs, Roel explains, “The repetitiveness, and build ups, are designed to be something to lose yourself in”, and states that this is inspired, in part, by the motorik of ground-breaking kosmische band, Neu! 

 

released October 24, 2024 

 

(digital, 7" vinyl, video - FatCat)

3) Amyl and The Sniffers - Jerkin

 

 

News from Melbourne, Australia indie-rock / punk band... 

 

Album "Cartoon Darkness" releases October 25, 2024 

 

Single releases October 21, 2024 

 

(digital,video - Rough Trade)

4) Turn South - I Believe In You

 

 

News from Melbourne, Australia emo-punk / indie-rock band... 

 

Written and performed by Turn South:
Jye Batham - guitars, lead vocals 

Aidan Ginn - drums, percussion, backing vocals 

Matthew Jones - bass, backing vocals 

Additional backing vocals by Tones Susan & Hayley Littlejohn 

Engineering & Production by Jonathon Tooke 

Mixing & Mastering by Jarred Nettle Recorded at Black Lodge Studios and at home in July and August 2024. 

Cover photograph and arrangement by Jye Batham. 

 

releases October 25, 2024 

 

(EP - Turn South)

5) Relay Tapes - Violets

 

 

News from Brisbane, Australia dreampop / shoegaze band... 

 

released October 20, 2024

 

 
(EP - Midnight Moth)
 

vinyl:
The Lovely Eggs - Death Grip Kids (7")
Kynsy - Utopia (12")
Wand - Help Desk / Goldfish (12")
EPs:
Snouting - Want /EP/
Sacred Hearts - Siren Songs /EP/
Sungazer - Godumi /EP/
Dazy - IT​’​S ONLY A SECRET (if you repeat it) /EP/
Lone Seagull - Cold Morning /EP/
digi single, video:
Soccer Mommy - Abigail
Dosser - Caught In A Web / Learned to Breathe
Glimmer - So Numb
Von Hertzen Brothers - The Relapse
Sloan - Underwhelmed (Remastered video)
Painted Vein - My Well
Literature - Döda Paret Och Deras 'Vänner' (J. Pirinen)
Hippie Death Cult - Toxic Annihilator
The Tubs - Freak Mode
ČAD - Keď satan chodil po zemi
A Place To Bury Strangers - It's Too Much
Prince Daddy & The Hyena - God Complex / La Da Da
Grumpy - Holding
HotWax - She’s Got A Problem
Momma - Ohio All The Time
Bathrobe - Till My Death
High. - Catcher
Airline - Coma
Joyful Forfeit - Pale In Comparison
World News - Junkie
Mevius - Waiting
The Blue Herons - Ladybug
Soft Vein - Falling
Electric Youth - The Best Thing (Lifelike Remix)
Circuit des Yeux - God Dick
Dune Rats - Solar Eyes (Hellcat Speedracer Remix)
Painted Vein - My Well
Elson - Apparition
U2 - Happiness