Bad Mojos - Spacejunk

 

  In a groundhog day kinda way, today I'm bringing you another super cool band from Switzerland who've got a new release out on No Front Teeth Records. This time it's the turn of Bad Mojos, a Lofi-Weirdo-Retardo-Punk outfit that I came across just over a year ago and who I posted a very uninformative update about here : http://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/bad-mojos-if-i-were-you.html

  So what have I learnt about them in the past 14 months? Not a lot to be honest. They had a bunch of really good songs that NFT bunched together on the Punx Faggots Freaks 7" and now the same label has released their debut album, Passout City. It's 11 tracks of fun, Spits influenced lo-fi garage punk that you can check out here : https://badmojos.bandcamp.com/album/pass-out-city-ep

  This is Spacejunk......

Buck Biloxi And The Fucks - I Got Kicked Out Of Shadowrun

 
Previously featured in here earlier this year, Buck Biloxi And The Fucks have recently released a new 12" ep called Culture Demanufacturer (they call it an ep but containing 14 tracks it's pretty much album length). The songs are short, lo-fi nuggets of primitive and pissed off rock n roll that's fresh out of the garage. This is a really cool release (check it out yourself here : http://buckbiloxiandthefucks.bandcamp.com/album/culture-demanufacturer ).
  Here's a track from it called I Got Kicked Out Of Shadowrun, it features some excellent futuristic laser gun sound effects.......

Sick Thoughts - Frustrated

"I can't get a date, so gotta masturbate....."

 If, instead of writing a blog, I was a radio dj, and I had a record of the week slot whereby I selected the best of the weeks new releases, Frustrated by Sick Thoughts would now be booming out on the nation's airwaves. Rather impressively, the ep which it comes from, Fat Kid With A 10 Inch, which is just out on Slovenly Recordings, has 4 tracks streaming on bandcamp and all four sound equally impressive (check 'em out here : https://slovenly.bandcamp.com/album/sick-thoughts-fat-kid-with-a-10-inch-comes-with-poster ).
  The brainchild of Baltimore resident Drew Owen, a guy who at only 17 years old is producing some of the most exciting new punk songs you're likely to hear, Sick Thoughts must be one of the most prolific acts around (check out their entry in Discogs. How Many releases in the last couple of years!!!!!.... http://www.discogs.com/artist/3399802-Sick-Thoughts ).
  Drew plays all the instruments himself when recording whilst onstage he's joined by just a drummer. Many of his recordings are cheap, rough and ready but in a good way, the Fat Kid ep though sounds, to my tender ears, like a step up and will hopefully lead to greater things. A story of sexual frustration which would have fitted in beautifully on an early Buzzcocks 7", this is Frustrated.....

The Swell Maps - Helicopter Spies

 "Swell Maps was a big influence on our early records ... they had these songs they fucked up somehow to make sound really dirty and low frequency, but they had these great songs underneath all this mess"
Scott Kannberg (Pavement)

“The Swell Maps had a lot to do with my upbringing”
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

A classic today from a band that have been around, in one form or another since 1972 (Brothers, 16 year old  Nikki Sudden and 12 year old Epic Soundtracks very much embraced the diy ethic, playing instruments like telephone books and boxes to create their own bedroom music). From Birmingham, Swell Maps only really got going properly after the punk explosion paved the way for bands like this to get the opportunity to get their ideas across. 1977 saw the release of the much loved debut single, Read About Seymour, they made 3 more singles plus 2 albums (A Trip To Marineville and Jane From Occupied Europe) before parting ways in 1980. Sonically more adventurous than most of their contemporaries, their legacy lives on through the many bands who they influenced. From their 2nd album, this is Helicopter Spies.....

There aren't that many trees in Arabia
Think how many you've seen.
I'd rather buy a moat than another lawn
Back with the guns again.

Helicopter spies always break new ground
Deep hidden in sacks of grain
They never have time to dig up the beds
Back with the guns again.

Helicopter spies-they make me cry.
Helicopter spies-they make me cry.

You're always cutting through the undergrowth
There's a passage inside the trees
If you find your way through the tailor's shop
You'll probably be asleep.

I'd rather take a day off and find you alive
Than to push through the coral alone
You think you'll find the lagoon again,
But they often sink away.

Helicopter spies-they make me cry.
Helicopter spies-they make me cry.

Helicopter spies always rush around
Their jackets often fall off
They never have time to put them back on again
They're always tough enough.

Helicopter spies-they make me cry.
Helicopter spies-they make me cry.
Helicopter spies-they make me cry.

The Achtungs - Full Of Hate

Over to Finland today for a blast of raw garage punk n roll from The Achtungs. After creating a buzz in their home country with last years s/t ep they're hopefully going to kick up a racket overseas with the release on Total Punk Records of their energetic and catchy as hell new single, Full Of Hate.......

Giorgio Murderer - theme from star trek

I've been waiting patiently to add today's song to the blog but a studio version seemed as though it wasn't going to get uploaded to youtube so hopefully no one will shoot me with their phasers for adding it myself. Unfortunately I don't know much about Giorgio Murderer other than he's a creature from outer space who occasionally takes over the body of  Rob from Buck Biloxi And The Fucks in order to churn out throbbing, slightly off kilter weirdness. He's done a split single with B.B & The Fucks (one of the tracks is below) and there's a compilation track called Primitive World which you can listen to here : http://rubberneckzine.bandcamp.com/track/giorgio-murderer-primitive-world . This is one of last years most fun tracks, make sure you play it loud, this is Theme From Star Trek.....