Here it is. The newest release to our continuing split 7" series.
This pairing joins New York City creepers Pop 1280 and Philadelphia misanthropes Hot Guts. Two bands, that hold great things in the years to come, bring two sides of dark, brooding post-punk with wire tight rhythm sections. Almost industrial, with enough pop-driven momentum to make you wanna move. Songs you will remember after you've walked away from the turntable. A refreshing sentiment indeed, given the current climate of 'boss & toss' 7"es being released by the truck load.
For starters, Pop. 1280 hail from the same pool that bands like Twin Stumps and Pink Reason, to name a couple, inhabit. So you can get an idea of where they are coming from. Here, they offer one long trek into the void called Neon Lights, which tops out at 5 & 3/4 minutes! A perfect introduction or a compliment to their self-released 7" from last year. These four New Yorkers excel at creating uneasy, pulverizing downer rock jams, but with a pop sensibility that bounces. Monotone & maniac vocals ride a textured, menacing racket-laced anthem all the way to the end... The end of what?! Look for their debut full length out on Sacred Bones later this fall.
Hot Guts return to Badmaster with two songs about paranoia and male prostitution. Hot Guts debut 7" seemed to inhabit a completely different landscape with each track and this offering is no different. With dense guitars and pounding drums fighting to push their deep, goth-tinged vocals into the foreground, you can easily recognize a myriad of familiar influences. Pretty much everything recorded in the years between '78 & '82 when post-punk was cresting, but they always manage the deft trick of incorporating, never emulating any of them. Revisionism. Not revivalism. You might feel a slight pang of nostalgia here, but do not be fooled. In their world, there is no future, no past. Only the present and it isn't a very pretty place. Just when you think these songs might collapse in on themselves, they burst forward to sear the flesh off your cold, cold heart and just as fast, its over... leaving you wanting more. A bunch of very straight faced dudes. One of which, I feel I should mention, is from FNU Ronnies/Chickens. They are currently working on their full length which, I for one, can't wait to get my grubby, little hands on.
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"UK mysterious masked multi drummer-ed noise rock weirdos, who recently destroyed at SXSW, and did a fair bit of damage in the Bay Area recently as well, return with their own take on dubstep, and it's just as fucked up and freaked out as we might have imagined (or hoped), and we have to say it's pretty much how we wish ALL dubstep sounded, heavy and super distorted, blown out, the beats pounding, the bass fuzzed out and crushing, a lurching hypnotic groove, surrounded on all sides by crumbling FX, distorted howls, a dizzying swirl of demented sounds, it's like the Butthole Surfers remixed by Burial, or Kode9 covering Rusted Shut.
The B-side is the blissier of the two, but only just barely, with deep undulating bass, a locked and looped main groove, weird grunts, and blurred voices, little bits of melody, twisted and tweaked, but weirdly tranquil and hypnotic. Some DJ somewhere is gonna whip this out midset and either utterly destroy the dancefloor, or seriously freak folks the fuck out. Much more likely the latter. Best dubstep jam of the year? Quite possibly... "
Aquarius Records
AIDS Wolf / Satanized Split 7" (BM0021)
AIDS Wolf (montreal) and Satanized (philly) have joined forces to create a musical document of startling ugliness. The first of two Aids Wolf songs brings to mind a modern Harry Pussy piece or what it might sound like if 4 people with shotgun wounds to the gut were thrown in a pitch black room and left to scamper around looking for an exit that does not exist. (haha, who writes this shit?) The second is classic Aids Wolf, that could have easily landed on their Cities of Glass LP. The Satanized side sounds like a 24 hour shift at a steel mill turned mental institution that only employs the criminally insane. Lots of blood everywhere on this one. Brutal sonic violence. Satanized produce a truly great recording that captures everything that makes this band so awe-inspiring in a live setting. This 7" will leave you holding your lover a little bit closer at night and questioning the morality of bringing a child into this uncaring world. There are some sounds that you can't unhear... and why would you? 2 un-released AIDS Wolf tracks & 1 long Satanized cut, housed in a 5 color silk screened jacket, inside and out, by Seripop.
Hot Guts 'Ballad Of Jon Simon' 7" (BM0020)
“HOT GUTS ARE THE FUTURE OF HEAVY MUSIC AND THEY WILL BE PLAYING WHENEVER AND HOWEVER THEY PLEASE!” I do not toss around this sort of language in a casual, daily fashion. Hot Guts earned it with the mystery greatness spread thick across each song. “The Ballad of Joe Simon” was particularly striking right off the bat, and it must be placed on the table that this is not the type of “great” in which there’s no hint whatsoever as to how it relates to the band’s record collection. Definite Swans-love happening here, both in the pummel and the Gira-deep vocals, and this is tastefully if not predictably matched with some other industrial/early-noise creep-o’s like Chrome and the venerable Throbbing Gristle. I heard early Killing Joke and Nick Cave, too, but to drive home an adage that can’t be driven hard enough, it’s all what you do with the source material. Now, looking at that layer of Hot Guts, and no, I have never heard anything like this, ever, and thankfully, it’s a good thing this time." Andrew Earles- Still Single
V/A 'DIS-ADELPHIA' (BM0018)
20 track compilation from Philadelphia's most unknown.
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Track Listing:
01. Memes - Small
02. Hot Guts - Ballad of John Simon
03. Reading Rainbow - Totem Pole
04. U.S. Girls - Daisy Cutter
05. My Mind - Dis Denunciation
06. Satanized - Total War (by NON)
07. Birds Of Maya - BF 4
08. Barking Spiders - Ice Age
09. Fun Dogs - Aluminum Scabs
10. Women - Strangler *
11. King Kong Ding Dong - Stab Your Way To Freedom
12. Talk Me Off - Listen To Me
13. Embaker - Romantic Neck Tattoo
14. Serpents Of Wisdom - Snake Cave
15. Akasha Blade - Run Away
16. Mincemeat Or Tenspeed - Super Space Traveler
17. The Blacks & The Blues - Secrets
18. Rawar - The Baker
19. Drums Like Machine Guns - ABC Sunday
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Next Up: ULTRATHIN debut 7" Featuring members of Pink Noise from Montreal, Canada.
Check them out Live on WFMU's Talk's Cheap 12/15/2009
