Welcome
to 2013 compilation LP review
The packaging and the zine that
comes with this record are excellent, as per normal with Not Normal. Detailed, artistic, captivating, everything a
compilation should be.
The two tracks Basque Country band
Hondartzako Hondakinak offer are pure chaos, unfocused hardcore punk with a
lacking sense of rhythm- I’m not complaining.
Cülo is as
they always are- pure nihilistic snot without a bass or regard for common
existence of man; it is mutant, through and through. Adjustment to Society is one of my favorite
PNW hardcore punk bands with some of the hardest-hitting, brutally honest
lyrics I’ve read to date. They’re no
longer a band now, but I can’t say enough good things about them anyways. I am at a loss for words on what to say about
Big Crux’s track. Ooze had me confused
at first as well, but eventually I did realize that it’s a shell of weirdness
with a thrashy punk center filling.
Haute Couture’s track is a straight-up Bad Brains-worship intro
conjoined with some gnarly d-beat, quite good.
Inservibles has two tracks of noisy raw punk, adequate at what it is but
just a little too unpolished for my taste.
Tenement… I really tried to get into this band, but honestly, I hate
this track, through and through. I’m
sure it’s decent indie rock music, but I really fucking hate indie rock music.
Side two brought Negative Degree
first- nervous fits of rage-filled 80s hardcore punk, 100% piss and
vinegar. Brown Sugar’s track is another
minute-long blast of funky weirdness, but it has a drive to it. Porkeria is a band that sound as though Los
Crudos listened to a lot of classic 80s hardcore (even though they probably
already did). The Spanish-speaking
nations seem to make some badass hardcore; not sure if there’s a correlation
between the two, but it doesn’t matter, because no matter who made it, these
tracks rip. NASA Space Universe- a
strange mix of noise punk and the drearier side of Chaos UK songs; I wasn’t
into it. Good Throb- whoa, what a
band. They are as if X-Ray Spex were
angrier and funnier, and given how insightful Poly Styrene was (RIP), this is
saying something. Catchy, biting,
driving- everything punk should ever be in two tracks. Bored Straight has ripped for a while, but
these two songs are a step above, yet still fit with the rough and weird mix of
punk tracks on this compilation. They
are a modern Midwestern version of The Neos.
Broken Prayer is a halfway decent Chicago group, playing some post
punk/industrial punk- unique, though this track is not a particularly standout
one for this band. Closing out this
undoubtedly weird record is Thee Nodes, who blast some
heavily-drenched-in-reverb noise punk, probably best experienced under the
influence of hallucinogens. Spacey as
fuck, no doubt.
I can highly recommend half the
bands on this, the rest are honestly too weird for me. If you like super weird, you might dig it,
but I thrive on rhythm and a mild resemblance of normality, so do with that
what you will.
-Aunty Social
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