Tag: garage

  • The Nude Party – s/t LP

    The Nude Party – s/t LP

    As one listens to The Nude Party‘s self-titled album, it’s instantly easy to pick out some sounds and ideas which may have inspired the music, but not so easy to figure out how all the pieces might have aligned to produce this result. For example, the haunting keyboards which color the songs on The Nude…

  • Geezer – self-titled

    Geezer – self-titled

    Hailing from the other Kingston (that would be in New York), this heavy-rock trio shoots from the hip on their Ripple Music debut with 52 minutes of bluesy riff rock. New Paltz is sinkin’ man, and I don’t wanna swim! Leadoff single “Sunday Speed Demon” has a loose, 70’s garage-rock feel, with a few heavy…

  • Tinkerbelles – Fine Asses EP

    Tinkerbelles – Fine Asses EP

    It has been a very, very long time since a new record forced my mind to expand so quickly that it made my eyes blur, but that’s exactly what Tinkerbelles‘ debut 7-inch – the Fine Asses EP – did to me. The first time I put it on and stylus touched vinyl, the record just…

  • Space Mushroom Fuzz – Burning the Almanac

    Space Mushroom Fuzz – Burning the Almanac

    By Gruesome Greg Quickie, 20-minute EP from this Boston-based heavy psych outfit—now a proper power trio, apparently. The space-rock theme remains readily apparent in the four song titles, as “The Cosmic Evolution” kicks things off with some heavy fuzz-rock riffage and equally-distorted vocals. “The Bio Zones” keeps the cosmic grooves going, a nice slow burner…

  • Kvelertak – Kvelertak

    Kvelertak hold nothing sacred, aren’t afraid to whip out their six schlongs to piss on the walls of convention and are getting the appropriate attention – both positive and negative – because of it, whether you like it or not. It all starts with their sound: a furious, kinetic and coruscating blend of 85 octane…