Stiff Richards “Dig”

sfilzen — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:36:55 +0000

Stiff Richards “Dig” 2019/2024 repress on limited edition translucent red vinyl, Legless Records. Australian garage punk, 8 song LP: the band’s second full-length release though it’s at 45rpm so the songs and the album are over so fast it feels like an EP. Love these guys: hard-driving, ass-shaking, straightup no frills hard garage rock energy. My top tracks are the lead/title track “Dig,” the riff-and-shred filled “Ostentatious,” the menacing edge of “Pea” (which is not about veggies but rather stands for P-Power, E-Energy, A-Action) (though a legume-based angry punk song would be fucking hilarious) and “Do It Right Now” which has one lyric line repeated over and over and it’s a massive ripper. There’s one cover, “No Fun On the Beaches” which was originally by The Chosen Few, another Australian punk band, from 1978. It’s great: super-simple and full of snot. Love these guys and hoping they tour soon but their last Instagram post was over 8 months ago so no idea what they’re up to/even working together; the most recent release was a single in October ’24.

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C.O.F.F.I.N “Children of Finland Fighting in Norway”

sfilzen — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:52:37 +0000

C.O.F.F.I.N “Children of Finland Fighting in Norway” 2020. Legless Records “recycled mish mash blue” vinyl variant. Hard and furious punk/metal garage rock from Sydney, Australia. Their Discogs bio says “psychotic skate punk & pub thrash band” – this, too, checks. We caught C.O.F.F.I.N in 2022 when they opened for Amyl and the Sniffers at Logan Square Auditorium in Chicago. Great pairing (and weird venue)! Both influenced by 70’s hard rock, most especially Motörhead, but C.O.F.F.I.N feels heavier, more brutal than Amyl. Possibly because the lead singer is also the drummer.

Children of Finland Fighting in Norway (sort of self-titled) is the band’s fifth LP since forming in 2005. My top picks are the wild “People and Their Stories,” the album opener “Fast Love,” the speed-metal/punk “Dead Land,” the somewhat exotic and fully punk “Headland,” and the all-out, balls to the wall speed metal on crack “Average Death.” They do slow down occasionally: “Ransack Blues” is down n’ dirty garage blues, with growl and swagger, but it’s like they can’t help themselves and midway through the track the tempo double-times and morphs into metal punk that would make Lemmy proud.

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