Despite hailing from the east coast of the USofA, American Jetset wear their influences very much on their (no doubted heavily tattooed) sleeves, as they declare their desire to inhabit the travel through time and space to the alleys and sewers of the Sunset Strip of the late Eighties with lascivious intent on this, their just-released second mini-album.
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Well, this album really gets your attention from the start. There is a dark ominous tone that immediately begins to build tension and suspense. This is slowly built up through the whole nearly three minutes of the first track and sets the stage for the rest that follows. Once the stage is set then the album goes into a bit more of what you would expect from a sludge/doom album maybe a bit too much of what is expected. There is nothing that really makes the album stand out; rather it is just a decent example of the genre.
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Back when the talent shows like ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ or ‘American Idol’ were still new and people were hoping that they would change the way new stars broke into the industry or infuse some new styles into the radio playlists, there would be a lot of great talent and we would all vote for our favourites and at the end, they would all go off with the promise of making a full album. It finally would come out and it would just be yet another generic pop album with only a hint of what they were back when you voted for them. John B doesn’t know if Double Experience was ever on one of those talent shows but ‘Alignments’ is that generic pop album that always resulted. Sure, he can hear that they have talent and that they probably would have been great covering other people’s music, but, honestly, the originals that ended up on the album just seem uninspired.
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A coldwave label releasing something a touch away from their general radar is sometimes enough reason to give something at least a quick listen. Funeral Party have their own fans rightfully so, for a lot of their output so hearing that they are putting out the debut album of a dark post-punk act from the Bay Area, obviously better known for its thrash output over the years, is certainly enough to pique the interest. Labelled as a mix of French coldwave, European post-punk and early shoegaze, it was time to see if that mix lived up to its billing…
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Once one of the metal underground’s best-kept secrets, Detroit scum-crew Shitfucker burst into the public’s consciousness with utter and unrelenting rudeness with their debut album ‘Suck Cocks in Hell’ in 2013 courtesy of those fine purveyors of filth at Hells Headbangers. Prolific before that album and prolific after, the power-trio kept apace with salacious split recordings with the likes of Bonehunter, Japan’s Abigail, and the mighty Midnight. It’s been a long wait, but the band’s second album, ‘Sex With Dead Body’, is finally here, spewing a mixture of black thrash and toxic hardcore punk, pumped full of bile, disease, degradation, and devil worship over forty furious and filthy minutes.
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