The Nerve Curlers 3-Song Sampler cassette
Debut three-song cassette release out of Houston, Texas. Catchy, poppy, indie-infused punk-adjacent rock music. Something about the vocal styling and delivery really reminds me of the LEMONHEADS, though I wouldn’t say the band particularly sounds like them. The band self-describes the release with the tags “psychedelic,” “surf-rock,” and “post-punk,” but I gotta say, I wouldn’t use any of those terms to describe them. Sure, there’s a bit of tremolo on the guitars, but that’s the closest thing to surf I hear, and these are like mid-to-fast-paced pop punk songs more than they’re post-punk—that’s just one punk’s opinion, I suppose. Regardless of how you want to categorize it, I have had the chorus of “God Hates You (Sylvia Plath Style)” stuck in my head for multiple days straight now.