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Gob Psychic “(All Week) Rent Payer”

sfilzen — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:19:20 +0000

Gob Psychic “(All Week) Rent Payer” 2023. Slovenly Recordings, limited edition yellow vinyl. Danish garage punk, not their first release but looks like their first vinyl release, a 3-song EP 7-inch. Don’t let the swirly pastel cover art fool you, this is energetic and buzzy high octane rock-n-roll. The lead/title track “(All Week) Rent Payer” leads off with a decidedly 70’s UK punk/Damned riff and blasts into stilted and angular rhythms that back angry vocals. “Content Moderator” has a more 80’s US west coast punk flavor: darker, also angry. “Dead Intruder” has a bit of a wacky, new wave sound that leads it off but then it goes into balls-to-the-wall relentless garage punk sound with gasping vocals (literally, at one point the singer says “I can’t breathe”). I don’t know anything about Gob Psychic beyond their bio on Bandcamp (they are Danish and inspired by both Aussie and Midwestern punk – I think that might be a Devo reference based on the wacky new wave sounds I noted above); it looks like the did a small West European tour last fall but they haven’t released anything since 2023.

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Pet Mosquito “Pre Apocalypse Motorcycle Music”

sfilzen — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:17:55 +0000

Pet Mosquito “Pre Apocalypse Motorcycle Music” 2024. Slovenly Recordings, 4-song EP on orange vinyl. Young “thrift shop thrash” garage punks from Carbondale, Illinois. Their name inspiration? “…the four of us are pesky and annoying, like teenage mosquitoes.” We caught Pet Mosquito’s set this past July up in Green Bay at GBUFO Fest and their set was killer! We ran into the band again the next day at the GBUFO record shop and steered singer/guitarist Everett towards a few Wisconsin bands (including Milwaukee legends The Mistreaters) and chatted about our mutual love of Jon Spencer (they were going to be performing at a Goner Fest after-party show in September; Spencer performed on one of the main stages). We finally got their first slab of vinyl (they do have a few other releases, all on CD or digital) in the mail a couple of weeks ago.

According to their Bandcamp, Pre Apocalypse Motorcycle Music was “recorded to four track at the ‘historical’ Lost Cross house. Pet Mosquito’s blistering take on Midwestern garage punk draws inspiration from the sounds of a chopped exhaust pipe ripping your eardrums apart whilst you drink a warm beer on the 4th of July. These four songs take the existential anxiety of our pre-apocalyptic world and transmute it into furiously danceable bops that include songs about a femme fatale who sleeps with the Zodiac Killer, secret government projects, and more nonsensical non-nonsense. You’ll be ready to take on any CIA agent, alien, or zombie biker that comes your way. It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s Pre Apocalypse Motorcycle Music!” I’m not sure about taking on zombies, but the EP definitely has a creepy-ass Cramps vibe, lo-fi and thrashing. “K” is short and sharp, “Okie Dokie” has more of a 60’s garage pace but with seriously torn edges. Side 2’s “Secret Services” veers slightly pop for a moment…until Everett starts his wicked growl and “Mr Repeater” is an all-out punk cacophony of sound and energy. Catch these guys live – they are terrific!

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Green/Blue “Green/Blue”

sfilzen — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:47:03 +0000

Green/Blue “Green/Blue” 2020. Slovenly Recordings. The first release from noisy Minneapolis garage rockers Green/Blue and the new(ish) project by Jim Blaha of The Blind Shake, Shadow in the Cracks (both of those with his brother, Mike Blaha) and Jim and the French Vanilla. The Blaha bros are busy! I adore The Blind Shake and Shadow in the Cracks (and they put on wildly great shows) so I’m not sure what took me so long to put Green/Blue on the turntable; I was inspired today when I listened to a Spotify mixtape (put out for Dirtnap Record Patreons) that included the Green/Blue track “Police Street.” The rest of the record is just as great! It is on the lo-fi side, dark and driving. Jim Blaha is responsible for all the instruments, which he “recorded on the thinnest of tape in the basement studio of [his] Minneapolis home” (from Slovenly Recordings’ website) and most of the vocals; additional vocals are provided by Annie Sparrows (from The Soviettes). Jim is also a collage artist and created all of the record’s artwork. According to Slovenly, Green/Blue has evolved from basically a solo project to a four-piece and now includes Danny Henry (also from The Soviettes) on drums and Video Takahashi (from Birthday Suits) on bass. Jim sings and plays guitar. Besides “Police Street,” my top tracks include the opener “At a Loss,” the wild “No Place to Go” which has Blaha and Sparrows sharing desperate vocals, the lo-fi rocker “Holiday Kicks” and “Return.” Green/Blue just released their new record Offering a couple of days ago – we need to get a hold of it soon (unless we already did the preorder, I honestly can’t keep up with our record collection).

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BLAHA “Fresh Horse”

sfilzen — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:55:35 +0000

BLAHA “Fresh Horse” 2017. 3-song 7″ on Slovenly Recordings. BLAHA is The Blind Shake’s Mike Blaha’s solo project (the other Blaha brother in The Blind Shake, Jim, has his own side-project, Jim and the French Vanilla; they also have a joint project, Shadow in the Cracks). (The Blaha’s are as prolific as some of their stated influences – Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees – releasing new music every few months or so.) We saw BLAHA perform this past Friday night at Acme Records in Milwaukee and as expected, Mike and his band saturated the store with their raw fuzzed-out garage rock. Intensity permeates every aspect of BLAHA (I chatted with Mike for a few minutes after the show, discussing The Blind Shake documentary from a few years ago; he said that the interviewers would ask a question, he would answer and they wouldn’t say anything so he’d answer it again and then yet again more emphatically until they’d say “OK, got it.” Mike: “It made me seem really intense.” I laughed. It’s funny because it’s true! It’s difficult to get a good performance photo at Acme but here is a picture from the show, the caption “intense”).

“Fresh Horse” and “All My Cells” on the A-side of the 7″ are, of course, also intense. Stomping beats, distorted and fuzzed guitars, noise rock yet with enough catchy melody to take the edge off the sinister vibe the songs convey. The B-side “The Day We Were Born” is, when compared to the flipside, practically straight-up pop, reminding me of the late 80′s/early 90′s Brit-pop scene, bright flower power garage rock sprinkled with a bit of 21st century grit.

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