A stinging instrumental attack provides the distinction to this brisk tape of thrashy tunes. While this band definitely need work in the area of writing distinctive HC, they seem best at the quasi-NEOS approach of songs like “Scared Single.” Maybe this is a good direction for this abrasive outfit.
This one’s growing on me. Neat garage punk and thrash showing lots of imagination and diversity. There’s weirdness interspersed between tracks (must be a Midwestern tradition), in the tracks, and in the lyrics. Singer Eric Fund Fournier actually sounds like LOVE’s Arthur Lee on “Young and Restless.” Cool.
Garage punk (the instrumentation) meets early SoCal surf punk (the vocals), drops acid (the production), and voila! I really like this seven-song debut.
Half studio and half live material, this above average band rages, has fun and executes a powerful but non-generic thrash/punk style that hits the spot. Enjoyable.
A real homemade job, just 300 pressed of this one-sided, hand-painted cover LP. A cleaned up CHEMOTHERAPY? Perhaps, but this is still grungy Midwest punk. No frills from this now-defunct Pittsburgh band, just basic garage democracy.
If you ever heard their classic “Sex Orgy with the Brady Bunch” from an earlier EP, then you know what a great garage punk band the GYNECOLOGISTS are. On this tape, they crank out ten more growling, grungy slices of Midwest dementia.
Columbus, Indiana, that is. There are four bands here, KILLING CHILDREN being the most proficient and thrashed-out. The others—the PATTERN, ANDROPOV’S ASSASSINS, and studio group COLBY—are definitely on the garage side of life. They have that unmistakable Midwest flair, best exemplified by the PATTERNS’ classic “Burger Palace of Death.”
This debut EP from Kalamazoo’s VIOLENT APATHY is much slower and more metal-influenced than their cut on the Process of Elimination EP, but it has the same piercing guitar sound. Several of the songs here are too close to heavy metal for my taste, but “Bought and Sold” and “Scathed” have more screechy punk appeal. For BLACK FLAG rather than MINOR THREAT devotees.
