TJ Cabot & Thee Artificial Rejects - Nowhere To Go

  

  Busy Busy Busy... 

  Both Alien Snatch Records, who this month are responsible for releasing 3 excellent albums (so don't be surprised if I'm returning to feature more music from the label very soon) and one of those bands, TJ Cabot & Thee Artificial Rejects who during the course of 2020 have released an 8 track Demo, a digital single called Overcompensation, the Dick Charles ep, the Get Ready Get Set! ep and now a Self Titled full length. As I revealed back in June (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/06/tj-cabot-thee-artificial-rejects-whats.html), they're a rough and ready garage punk outfit from Moncton, Canada, featuring Phone Jerks frontman Tyler Boots. Trashy, lo-fi and proud of it, they're budget rock n rollers for fans of the likes of Jay Reatard or Gino And The Goons. 

  The album boasts 11 lean & mean cuts clocking in at a little under the 20 minute mark. As with the best of the genre, it's authentic sounding garage goodness underpinned by some pretty catchy tunes. You'll want to check it out. I'm not sure how many of the vinyl variants remain (there were 100 on clear vinyl with black swirls and 200 on black) so head on over to Bandcamp now :  https://aliensnatch.bandcamp.com/album/tj-cabot-thee-artificial-rejects  

  I think this is possibly my favourite track, it's called Nowhere To Go... 

TJ Cabot & Thee Artificial Rejects - What's In It

 

  A blast of blown out garage punk for you today courtesy of TJ Cabot & The Artificial Rejects. A new band to you? Me too but further investigation reveals they released a Demo ep back in April (https://tjcabot.bandcamp.com/album/tj-cabot-thee-artificial-rejects-demos). More digging and it turns out that they're a new budget rock project from Phone Jerks (https://www.facebook.com/Monctongaragepunk/) frontman Tyler Boots. 

  They've just released a new 3 track cassette on Goodbye Boozy Records though there appears to only be 14 copies produced (4 left at time of writing) so you'll either have to move quickly or settle for the digital download : https://goodbyeboozydigital.bandcamp.com/album/digital-tape

  The sound is deliberately rough & ready, it's authentic garage rockin' and rollin' from a guy who knows his way around the genre. There's a track about "foodies" a fun and rather rowdy cover of this song from 1977 by Buddy and the Boys (compare and contrast, the original is somewhat of a good ol' boys country hoedown  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnnZv40r52U) plus a companion piece to a song that appeared on the last Phone Jerks ep. That song was titled Out Of The Gate (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/02/phone-jerks-out-of-gate.html) and was written by the band's drummer Emily from the point of view of her and Tyler's greyhound, Donair. This song is about the same dog's level of indifference to everything.

  It's called What's In It...