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Following the sold out 7" (released by Static Shock Records in the UK and Goner Records in the US, SSR 070EP) and a run of UK shows with Sheer Mag, Chubby & The Gang are here with their debut LP, Speed Kills. Wall-to-wall speedy punk bordering on the recklessness of Motorhead, the single mindedness of The Kids, the streetwise panache of Cockney Rejects, and the occasional curveball pasted in to keep everyone surprised. This LP is timeless vernacular perfection peppered with misleadingly obvious displays of brashness aching their way into the hallways of surprising musical channels. "Can't Tell Me Nothing" could have been on a Rip Off Records 7" from 20 years ago, "Trouble" -- a love song to Chubby's one true muse: being naughty -- is like an ironed and overdriven Wreckless Eric, "Grenfell Forever" is taken from the empty glass of the Billy Bragg back catalog. All that alongside the sneering eternity of "All Along the Uxbridge Road", the Hammond Organ smeared "Bruce Grove Bullies" -- it will all have you reaching for your London A to Z and trying your hardest not to spill your pint.
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SSR 047EP
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Sarcasm from London release their debut EP on Static Shock Records after a great five-track demo Total Institution, released on Far So Far in 2016. Sarcasm deal in angular post punk led by skeletal guitars and a locked in rhythm section. The vocals are nonchalant and a bleak and broody vibe is sprinkled on each of the four tracks. The sound sits somewhere between a more sparse Crisis or The Fall, in the glory years on Step Forward Records. This is the sound of the past, the sound of now, and the sound of dissatisfaction.
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SSR 067LP
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Minima is the new face of Barcelona punk. Members of Una Bestia Incontrolable, Barcelona, Fatamorgana, and Snor. 13 tracks to pull you away from the bar and into the pogo. Full of the kind of choice punk you'd expect of such a pedigree: jabbing riffs thrumming out, buzzed up with an insistent pull, clipped clattering beats pinning it down, vocals delivered with a potent snarl, accusatory and savage. From fizzing pogo of "Adolescente", to "Cicatriz"'s threatening hum, the whole album strikes a sharp balance between the big-riffing hardcore of someone like Glue or Nekra, and the Catalan/Spanish primitive-punk lineage that runs from Qloaqa Letal to dirt-raw rippers Pinen.
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SSR 069LP
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Debut 12" from Sydney's Negative Gears. Following a domestic pressing by Disinfect Records (Low Life, Oily Boys). Seven tracks of tightly wound post punk from a group of individuals that give you the feeling that they're looking at the glass not so much half empty, but long since spilt and with no replacement on the horizon. The type of anguish that makes you either want to scratch your head at the state of the world, or take a full-on somersault onto a razor blade, being held up by an anonymous hand from your home country, much like the matey-boy on the front cover. For fans of Diät, Institute, and Marbled Eye.
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SSR 064EP
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Fourth EP from Warthog, the raging hardcore punk band from New York City. Full of beefy hardcore built on pounding drums, raging riffs, and a thick production. Think Mellaka, Sacrilege demos, Poison Idea, and just the faintest whiff of something St. Vitus might have written on their day off. First press comes with a four-color, screen printed sleeve with artwork by Alex Heir, insert, and stamped labels.
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SSR 048LP
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Sharpen your pencils, pseudo intellectuals, The Minneapolis Uranium Club (or just Uranium Club) have returned with a new LP! All Of Them Naturals is a collection of new songs that sound exactly like Wire, and exactly like Devo, and exactly like The Randoms, and exactly like Total Control, and exactly like The Shitty Limits, and exactly like Eddy Current, and exactly like The Fall without Mark E. Smith's languidness. It's like the Sex Pistols misfiring. All eight tracks come fully approved by The Sunbelt Chemical Corporation.
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SSR 058LP
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The debut LP from Berlin's Idiota Civilizzato. 11 tracks of wild Italian influenced hardcore punk. Recorded in a single marathon post gig all-night session, the debut LP from Berlin's Idiota Civilizzato builds upon their ripping 7" from 2017 (SSR 044EP). Obviously indebted to the wild sounds of the likes of Wretched, Impact, and Negazione but put together with its own distinctive grasping energy, a manic pile-on of cascading riffs, rifling drums, weird melodic trills needling through, barely held together, bursting with uncomfortable spite. Eleven frenetic punk tunes that writhe with mad-eyed fury, twisting livewire hardcore that sears into you, sneering on and roaring forward, fucked off, packed with bounce and sting.
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SSR 057EP
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Conor Lumsden from The Number Ones is Music City and the boy proves how talented he is, playing every instrument on this record. 1979 was a magical year in music terms and his debut sounds like a gem from that era. "Pretty Feelings" is a slow power pop chugger with gorgeous harmonies and Damn The Torpedos-esque moments. "Do I?" is more up-tempo with jangling clean guitars that is part power pop, part Green on Red and part Stars of Heaven. Recorded by Daniel Fox and mixed/mastered to tape by Mikey Young.
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SSR 038EP
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Ways To Die, Blazing Eye's most recent recording secures their place as one of Los Angeles's best hardcore-punk bands. Propagating punk as true and original as bands the likes of G.I.S.M. and Siege, Blazing Eye sets forth Ways To Die as their strongest release since their 2013 demo. It's a banger for sure.
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SSR 055EP
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Cold Meat hail from Perth, Western Australia, but with Pork Sword Fever deliver siren songs for every woman getting fucked over in every corner of this sorry planet. They hex lazy pricks and bad bastards with a spell of spectacular jangeloid riffs and clattering anarcho toms, each track upping the stakes like a praying mantis - fuck, decapitate, eat corpse for nourishment. This is incisive, tongue-in-arse-cheek, indefatigable punk. Cold Meat will have you fisting the air, but only if you lube up first.
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Beta Blockers are here with their debut, Stiff Prescription. What do they sound like? They sound like Die Kreuzen fucking about with the Screamers, or maybe Black Flag smashing gurners with Neubauten, or how about Stooges getting punished by the Gallagher brothers, maybe even all of those at the same time. Seven songs in eighteen minutes. Housed in a heavyweight sleeve featuring artwork from Keegan Dakkar Lomanto; Includes download code. White vinyl; Edition of 300.
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SSR 044EP
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Debut 7" EP from Idiota Civilizzato, Berlin hardcore band with members from Italy, Mallorca, and Australia (including members from Diät and Orden Mundial). "These weirdos look like they met at a bus station and together make up the ripping hardcore version of a house of cards that feels like it could fall apart at any moment, then it does but that's actually how the song goes so uno, due, tre, quattro and on with the next one, kapisce paisan? Idiota is gonna teach you a little bit of Italian with some catchy romance language grunts and groans." --Onton
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SSR 051LP
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Sievehead represent all that is good with DIY punk in the UK in 2017. Born, raised, and blossomed in the Lughole, in Sheffield, Sievehead have become a band of greatness. Their second album Worthless Soul is an album full of shimmering guitars, the bleakness of '80s Sheffield, and passionate vocals that ooze defiance. It has energy, heart, and that special something you can't put your finger on. It sits next to the classic early '80s era Gun Club, Arch Criminals, and Hüsker Dü. But still it has DIY punk running through every vein. Heavyweight reverse board sleeve with a printed inner sleeve; Artwork and photography from bassist Joe Singleton.
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SSR 046LP
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After playing gigs since 2011, Melbourne's Tyrannamen released their self-titled debut album on Cool Death Records. That pressing sold out instantly so the edition presented here is a result of Static Shock Records keeping this instant classic in print. The album is just 23 minutes long but every minute is worth the admission price alone. The album starts with calling card "I Can't Read Your Mind" which is full of ramshackle, yet instantly catchy punk rock but with a soulful and rock 'n' roll underbelly. It sits somewhere between Alex Chilton, Royal Headache and Irish power pop kings, The Moondogs. Other highlights include the anthemic "You Should Leave Him" which starts like The Undertones "Get Over You" before heading into a straight up pounder with Nic Imfeld's raw but tuneful voice taking the song to pop heaven.
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SSR 039EP
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Efialtis present four feral tracks of stripped down, high-energy, mid-tempo punk, with despotic vocals and ominous Greek lyrics. The sharp guitar and buzzing bass wade through combative drumming, all tough as nails, perfectly enhancing the nightmarish unease underlying their sound. Ten minutes of '80s-inspired, rudimentary jaggedness, complete with catchy songwriting, tight delivery and a production that's appropriately massive and the right amount of shambolic. Limited to 500 copies.
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SSR 037EP
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Sievehead are a product of the vibrant Sheffield DIY punk community. Here they offer two tracks on the A-side of burly punk rhythms careening and rumbling through swirling post-punk vibes, catchy and insistent, packed with pain and power, showcasing the same dark propulsive energy that caught the attention of DIY music fans the world over on 2015's Into the Blue LP. Pure Gold contribute a remix on the B-side here taking the song "Try The Mirror" and skinning Sievehead's vehement deathrock-tinged tumult and creating something that could sit comfortably on an early John Carpenter soundtrack. Limited to 500 copies.
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