ISS are the North Carolina duo that have gone down extremely well whenever I've featured them on here or on the Just Some Punk Songs show. Right from their first blog appearance 3 years ago with the X Ray Spex sampling Part Time All The Time (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2017/10/iss-part-time-all-time.html) through to the latest show in which one of the listeners chose Too Punk For Heavy Metal (https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/too-punk-for-heavy-metal) as their favourite song of 2020.
Maybe it's not their favourite track of the year now, as the late release of an ep titled Spikes gives them another 5 great songs to challenge Too Punk... for that accolade.
The ep is on Sorry State Records and at the moment is only available on cassette. As is usually the case with this band, if there's sampling going on throughout the ep, I haven't got a clue what songs are being used even though I feel I should (so feel free to shout up in the comments if you recognise something familiar). The cassette has unique packaging containing real spikes! But the title also refers to the spikes in Covid cases and the deaths during the pandemic. The title track deals with this whilst the song you'll find at the bottom of this update is a real smack in the face which raucously demands the wearing of facemasks. It's an ep very much of it's time and proves (not that it needed proving) that punk can still be fresh, inventive and relevant 40+ years down the line.
You can get the cassette here : https://www.sorrystaterecords.com/blogs/news/record-of-the-week-iss-spikes
This is Facemask...
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