Phylums “Decisions” b/w “Vexed” 2015. Dusty Medical Records. We saw Milwaukee’s Phylums last night when they opened for Greg Ashley at Anodyne. Neither track on this single are available online (or at least i couldn’t find them) but here is a video of them playing “Cold Coffee” a couple of years ago.

They don’t play out much and haven’t released anything in awhile, but their melodic and harmonic 60′s inspired twangy garage punk was super-upbeat and fun…unlike Greg Ashley, who plays solo acoustic guitar and has some of the most wrist-cutting level of depressing songs I’ve heard.

We made it through most of Ashley’s set but I was literally falling asleep and starting to feel sick (turns out it wasn’t his music but probably what I ate for dinner) so we had to leave before seeing Space Raft, another Milwaukee band on Dusty Medical that I really like. Fortunately Space Raft does perform quite a bit – and is working on a new album – so I’ll get to see them again soon.