Goblin Daycare

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Goblin Daycare Agitprop Hotline!!! cassette

Absolutely incredible solo egg-punk project from Istanbul, Turkey. Fast, quirky, driving, and catchy as hell. An entity known only as Mama Goblin is the mastermind behind this project, doing every single aspect of the process. Mama goes heavy on the catchy synth licks and it really works. This is simultaneously wildly catchy and a bit disturbing. Truly everything one could hope to get from an egg-punk solo project. Agitprop Hotline!! is the first full-length album by GOBLIN DAYCARE after an EP cassette (Q: EP? A: EP!!) and digital releases of singles and remixes, and it truly does not disappoint. Fingers crossed that it isn’t too much to hope for to get to see a live band on a US tour at some point.

Goblin Daycare Q: EP? A: EP!! cassette

Really digging this debut cassette from Istanbul, Turkey’s GOBLIN DAYCARE. “Mama Goblin” does it all in this project, combining bedroom synth waves with garage punk and resulting in an equation that reaches the highest level of egginess that weird punk could reach. Lo-fi punk maniacs and DEVO-core worshipers casting sounds with deranged guitars quite in line with the Spanish band PRISON AFFAIR, good mashing synth mayhem, and heavily reverbed electronic drums, plus an on-point distorted voice that’s still audible with non-stop ranting in the fashion of cyberpunk band WWW (and even reminiscent of Jello Biafra’s vocal register) and a bit of DEVO’s stop-and-go songwriting. Imagine if DEVO and Jello were fighting in a steamy basement and add it all to the experience of surfing space in a videogame. Suggested tracks: “Coup De Grace” and “Officer Down.” Things are getting quite eggy in the realm of weird punk.