Volk “Cashville” 2021. Romanus Records, limited edition, literally cash-filled Cashville. Last night we saw Volk perform at Shank Hall here in Milwaukee (they’re on tour with the Finnish band Steve ‘n’ Seagulls who were fucking brilliant!); it’s been just over a year since the last show of theirs we attended so it was excellent to rock out to some cow punk!

Volk (Eleot Reich on drums/vocals, Chris Lowe on guitar/vocals) performed some of my favorite songs from Cashville including the title track “Welcome to Cashville,” the sultry and somewhat sinister “I Fed Animals,” “Snake Farm” (originally by Ray Wylie Hubbard) which they’ve revamped slightly since last year and I’m totally digging the changes, and one of the best ass-shaking alt-country rockers ever, “Honey Bee.” It’s foot-stomping and head-banging. Volk is on a pretty heavy tour at the moment and they’re just out of the studio from recording their forthcoming LP. They teased at least one of the new songs at Shank: it was wildly funky and I’m really excited to hear the rest of the album. Like last year, they crashed at our house after the show and, being the hard-working duo that they are, were up early to keep putting the final touches on that record before they head up to Appleton for their next show tonight.

Chris and Eleot on dualing laptops, working their new LP magic