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The Gents / Klint split EP

Goodbye Boozy is giving me consolation in the current garage punk landscape. I don’t think there is a release by the Teranesian label where I am not finding the perfect balance of compelling and filthy. Case in point, this new split by Hamburg’s the GENTS and Schleswig’s KLINT. The former is a band of off-duty elementary school teachers ripping into four tracks of snotty, working-class (and I can’t help but think a bit pent-up?) punk, made to be played in front of drunken friends at the pub. How could this not be good? Listen to “Leftovers” first. KLINT brings an open hydrant full of synth aggression that can only be summed up as savage. The band has a long discography of reliable, sonically assaulting releases, which this split continues in perfect step. I love “Toiled for Nothing,” in particular.

Klint Klint cassette

Here’s something worth sinking your teeth into! Driving electro/synth punk utilizing a drum machine with tons of attitude. LOST SOUNDS pops into mind as a stylistic reference, but KLINT isn’t as guitar-forward, nor are they flirting with new wave in quite the same way. The vocals are overdriven and at times end up sounding robotic. In fact, it’s all vaguely robotic and suitably low-fidelity. The song “Noiseless” sounds like the SPITS if they were more obsessed with DEVO than the RAMONES. Fans of the PRODIGY or ATARI TEENAGE RIOT may find this appealing.