Surf punk in the garage.
Wild Evel And The Trashbones - Digging My Grave
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Songs 4 Hate & Devotion
On Bandcamp they tag themselves as apocalyptic pop, which is kinda right. Flavours of goth and industrial in a music rather dark and sexual.
Monster Magnet – Mindfucker
Mamuthones – Fear On The Corner
WTF experimental-kraut-rock from Italy. Cool cover.
The Bronx – V
Punk rock blast from down under.
Grave Pleasures - Motherblood
From the goth to the indie to the post-punk. Be my Hiroshima.
Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)
I am not the avid Gary Numan fan but this is a great album even if there is nothing outright special about it. Good moods of industrial-rock-electronics, not foreground music though. (And probably the most terrible album cover typography of 2017.)
Ritual Howls – Their Body
Still digging through some stuff from last year that I missed. And just can’t miss to put up everything from Ritual Howls here. Still goth.
Jamie Lenman – Devolver
Having a cover like this makes me wonder if this is something interesting, surely theatrical, probably unexpected. The guy is said to be a chameleon but I don’t like all aspects of that making this album inconsistent. Some tracks are blowing my mind (Personal is a new favourite), some are not what I would expect but still great (Body Popping is like that), and there are some that I don’t dig (and no point in listing such). I especially love the ones that have the undeniable mark of Trent Reznor and not because I want to hear him echo everywhere but because Lenman takes some stuff with him and makes it his own and it is really awesome what comes out (hear in Mississippi). All in all this shit is runner-up for my Top 10 in 2017. Again something that I didn’t see coming.
IDLES – Brutalism
Mostly punk. Then punk rock and post-punk. It is raw and dragging with force and wit.