Uranium Club
Infants Under The Bulb
Anti Fade Records, Static Shock Records (2024)
Do you take your punk with saxophone? Do you like post-angular guitars and rhythmic, near-spoken vocals? If so, Uranium Club is probably right for you. Apparently they call this egg punk nowadays. I would have called it art-punk. It definitely runs in the left-of-the-dial, DIY punk world, but has that glasses-wearing, proud-of-your-weirdness element that makes it hard to pin down to a single descriptor. It sounds like Wire and The Fall and maybe a touch of Lifter Puller and Shellac…kind of. In many ways it reminds me of No Wave era, but with modern production and some surprises along the way, all connected by hypnotic, head-nodding rhythms. It has the dynamic creativity of ‘80s Touch & Go and the personality of early punk. While it wanders fertile creative ground, there’s just enough traditional song structure to keep cohesive and digestible. The band get right into the thick of it with “Small Grey Man.” It has that Lifter Puller-like storytelling yarn thing going on, but the music is more anxious, almost stream-of-conscious. In this song (but not all of them), a saxophone weaves it all together, a steady melodic presence that connects the disparate points. Then a second vocalist pops in, dropping a striking verse that almost gives … Read more
The Phase Problem
The Power Of Positive Thinking
Brassneck Records (2024)
I spent a good part of the late ‘90s annoyed at the abundance of Ramonescore. I’ll stand by my word: … Read more
Totally Slow
The Darkness Intercepts
Refresh Records (2024)
I find Totally Slow a hard band to categorize. Their brand of melodic, hard punk is familiar and comforting -- … Read more
Steamachine
City of Death
Records Workshop (2023)
City Of Death is the third album from Polish noise makers Steamachine. Having dabbled in a few metal styles over … Read more
Faulty Cognitions
Somehow, We Are Here
Cercle Social Records (2024)
The opening track on Somehow, We Are Here is a statement. Yes, Faulty Cognitions is a punk band with members of Low Culture, Shang-A-Lang, Nocturnal … Read more
