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Crutches exerts an unrelenting pressure of dry, flat, gradually shifting iterative pummel. Sifting all unnecessary sugars, moisture and musicality out of things, this album is what I was yearning for when I first heard Shellac. We all have our reference point, though. What's yours?
My favourite No Balls song is the first song I heard from them, whatever it was. albinobone
Fuzzy Austin trio follow up their first album in 20 years, released in Spring 2015, with a stomping new EP of noisy rock & roll. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 26, 2016
Combining crooned murder ballads with raw, angsty hard rock hooks, Melbourne's The Ugly Kings are a wrecking crew well worth watching. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 15, 2021
Collaboration between French band Cheveu and Group Doueh from the Sahara is tense, taut, and claustrophobic. Grim and gripping throughout. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 30, 2017
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No Balls apply the familiar battering, repetitive aesthetic to a woodshop full of power tools by the sounds of it. Brittle shards of guitar chime next to squalling, murky psychedelia and crumbling bass (?) all conducting themselves in what sounds to be a military operation to confuse the enemy, render them insensate and hopeless.
For me: Caspar Brotzman Massaker meets Burmese and White Hills, but nobody likes each other. albinobone