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.
