Category: Bands/Comps/Splits
Jets Can’t Land ‘As The Earth Shakes’ Review in Motif
Jets Can’t Land — As The Earth Shakes
The sophomore EP, As The Earth Shakes, from Jets Can’t Land picks up where their debut, You Can’t Linger On, left off and pushes the barrel over the cliff with seven sci-fi tales set to indie guitar swing pyrotechnics. You want rock, well on “Dc-10” and “Your Boyfriend Godzilla,” Jets Can’t Land deliver. The former has a bit of a Sister-era Sonic Youth vibe while the latter comes off as an ’80s hardcore played by aliens from the future in an after-hours joint on the edge of Tokyo. “Stranded On The Moon” and the closer, “Bones of You” both have a cool lost in space yearning that just makes me yearn for more Jets Can’t Land. You can get lost in space with Jets Can’t Land by catching them in their first ever all acoustic show.
Jets Can’t Land As The Earth Shakes
75OL-287 Jets Can’t Land – As The Earth Shakes
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Digital download and streaming available here
Track Listing
1. Song for Yona
2. Children of the Train
3. The Wreckage of Us
4. DC-10
5. Stranded on the Moon
6. Your Boyfriend Godzilla
7. Bones of You
The 2nd EP by Jets Can’t Land includes songs about old monsters, sci-fi movies, miscalculated romances and the affected events that occurred (but can’t be proven) in an alternate universe.
Recorded in Spring 2018 at Plan of a Boy studios in Providence, RI.
We Own Land – Plan B
75OL-292 We Own Land – Plan B
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Digital download and streaming available soon
Track Listing
1. Crescent City
2. American Screw
3. Deserae
4. Down the Road
5. When You’re Not Around
6. Mexico
Vertical Twin – Minor Key Maladies
75OL-281 Vertical Twin – Minor Key Maladies
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Digital download and streaming available here
Track Listing
1. Jesuit Pope
2. Wanted
3. Sweatshop Sweetheart
4. Trip and Fall
5. Grade-A Amber Light
6. All My Children
7. Vickie Vomit
8. Gone
9. Stranger Things
10. Personalities
Gaskill ‘Special Weapons’ EP review at Dead Rhetoric
Gaskill – Special Weapons (75orless Records)
The follow up to 2015’s The End of the World and Our War albums (the latter their tribute to Black Flag), Special Weapons is a five-song EP that sees the New Bedford, MA unit solider forward in their primal crossover hardcore/thrash sonic blend that keeps things pure and true. One minute the band channel inner Danzig or early Life of Agony for “Small Cake”, and the next swiftly kick rear-ends in D.R.I. meets Nuclear Assault madness during “Slow Crows”. Expect raw emotion, in your face punchy tones, guitar riffs that crawl out of your speakers to attack, and true half-time doomy transitions without forcing the ‘breakdown’ while vocalist Kevin Grant floats his psychedelic, forceful delivery into your soul. Proof that crossover contains potency even in 2018.
Six Star General Hats
75OL-299 Six Star General – Green Hats
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Green hat, white front, with yellow and orange SSG text. Snapback adjustable sizing.
David Tessier – Dreams In Hyperspace
75OL-291 David Tessier – Dreams In Hyperspace CD
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Track Listing
1. The Whistler
2. Two Good Afternoons
3. The Dream Begins
4. Hey Mary
5. The Colder Still
6. The Summer Last
7. The Space Between
8. The Edge of Contact
Plastic Astronauts Self Titled
75OL-282 Plastic Astronauts – Self Titled
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Digital download and streaming are available here
Track Listing
1. Oh My God 00:39
2. Young Bodies 04:21
3. All This Time 03:40
4. Don’t Worry 03:07
5. Saturdays 04:16
6. Art Not Philosophy 04:04
7. Brother 02:10
8. Suicide Watch 02:59
9. Winter’s Light (The Whistlin’ Song) 02:02
10. Old Nepal 06:34
Written, performed, and produced by Dash Elhauge.
Album artwork by Joey Han. (ww.joeyhan.com)
Thanks to Alex, Hansen, and Mario for their feedback and support.
Steve K All You Ever Wanted
75OL-289 Steve K – All You Ever Wanted CD
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digital download and streaming is available here
Track Listing
1. Different This Time
2. All You Ever Wanted
3. Hide or Run
4. Jealousy
5. Better Deal
6. Space of Heroes
7. Calm Down
8. JC
9. Sayonara Hickory
Steve K is known to a dwindling few as the former guitarist/ songwriter for the 1980s bands “The Asparaguys” and the mock/rock outfit “The Friendly Dragons.”
Review of Gaskill’s Special Weapons
If you pay attention to our Facebook page then you know we were so enamored by all the bands at the recent record release show for Death Kiss Volume 2 that we decided that we HAD to do a feature on all the current Bandcamp discogs from the bands that performed at the show.
But GASKILL just put out a new record. So we decided that we’d feature that instead. And still talk about their Bandcamp discography.
But I digress.
Believe it or not, my first exposure to GASKILL was the track they contributed to the latest Death Kiss compilation (Which you can read all about by clicking here). Once again, Mary Frances can pat herself on the back knowing she brought to light another local gem to, not just to me, but to so many others through the comp and her show on WEMF. And in turn, I get to shed a little more light through my medium of communication. Circle of life and all that shit.
So “I Am The Spider” was my favorite on the comp and it closes up Special Weapons nicely here. Like I said on my initial take of the track, it’s like Jello Biafra fronting Anthrax….but boy does Kevin Grant have range beyond that. In fact, my FIRST impression was that of the second coming of Stompbox while live they definitely added elements of early Clutch to their repertoire.
In other words, GASKILL is a mutt. A glorious mutt made from the bestest of the best to create this musical beast/hound of beauty. If you go back through their discography (See! I told you I’d go there!) which dates back to 1996 (The band formed in 1995), the evolution into this multi-faceted behemoth that offers you new music today is obviously apparent.
“I Know Your Name” is blistering and intense and, much like their Black Flag covers album (Our War, available here), is also direct and to the point. With Kevin Grant’s voice stabbing at listeners as Dan Jagoda’s cacophonous drumming and Craig Fleming’s wall of noise guitar fuzz provide the perfect soundtrack of organized chaos.
“Small Cake” alters the tone vastly with a slow groove that rumbles along like molasses with Grant’s bellows echoing out and resonating, careening into an almost Danzig-esque chorus. “Salt” really lets Mario Costa’s bass barrage shine during a track that encapsulates some of the great noise of Boston yesteryear (Think Sam Black Church and Tree in particular) while “Slow Crows” is all crunchy and dirty and gritty and all the things until it becomes a thrashing rager.
And “I Am The Spider” closes it all up. And you already know how we feel about that one.