SURPRISE 021 | MOTHER'S CHILDREN - ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH? EP

SURPRISE 021 | MOTHER'S CHILDREN - ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH EP

Canada seems to be the new fertile ground for smashing powerpop. MOTHER'S CHILDREN hail from Ottawa, the same place as great bands like SEDATIVES, STEVE ADAMYK BAND (who they share a member with), WHITE WIRES and many others are from and keep making me go GAGA. This 6 track 12" is the follow up to their well received THAT'S WHO! LP on DERANGED. Dirk Klotzbach from OX put it this way (I fully agree!):
I really hope that you all followed my call up from OX # 92 in the meanwhile and have bought yourself a copy of MOTHER`S CHILDREN "That´s Who" Debut LP. So just to make it clear once again, there is no excuse ! The same as great as mentioned LP is this follow-up 12" from the Canadians. Power Pop Glam´n´Roll driven to perfection that should be spinning on your record player multiple times a day and that still is on a par with it´s musical archetypes. Take your personal hits from the first three Powerpearls Compilations add it up with the two episodes of Killed By Glam, listen to "Milk & Alcohol" and "She´s A Windup" by DR. FEELGOOD once again, don´t forget your BOYS, STIFFS and FAST CARS records and imagine you would be warped right back to the Seventies where you would be seeing all those bands live on stage, because this is the moment when you realize that you are dancing and beerspitting right in front of the stage of a MOTHER`S CHILDREN show. Maybe you´ll even meet Noddy Holder or Gary Holton there on your timewarp."

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Cold Death: Demo Tape

Equally excellent and infectious female fronted punk/new wave hybrid from Germany. The vocals take about a song for me to really get into, but now I can't get them out of my head. Moody and atmospheric delivery with fantastic song writing, COLD DEATH manage to pull off complete 80s worship without sounding recycled or trite, (from terminal escape) download here

SURPRISE 023 | RED DONS - A FORCED TURNING POINT 7"

SURPRISE 023 | RED DONS - A FORCED TURNING POINT 7"

Their FAKE MEETS FAILURE LP got some critical acclaim last year and this 7" develops their unique style even further. 2 new songs recorded on their last US tour in Chicago. Housed in a beautiful screenprinted sleeve, finally available! 1000 copies pressed on black wax. 200 have blank hand stamped and handnumbered center labels and slightly different sleeves available from the band and the TBSR mailorder only. Co-release with NEW DARK AGES.

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SURPRISE 024 | THE OBSERVERS - SO WHAT'S LEFT NOW LP

SURPRISE 024 | THE OBSERVERS - SO WHAT'S LEFT NOW

TAKEN BY SURPRISE repress! This is my favorite punk record of the last decade and I am more than happy to be repressing it, artwork has been bumped up a notch, so this LP looks better than ever. If you don't like this record, you shouldn't be listening to punk, maybe it's not for you.

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SURPRISE 025 | ROLE MODELS - FUCK YOU, SEE YOU AT THE TALENT SHOW 12"

SURPRISE 025 | ROLE MODELS - FUCK YOU, SEE YOU AT THE TALENT SHOW 12"

When you're a kid, Friday nights are the best thing ever. No school, weekend to piss about with friends, best night of telly.

Luckily Role Models never grew up and set about making their own seven day weekend.

Meeting in London from their four corners of the globe they settled on Soho as their home, picking their way through the waifs and strays of the city after dark to find themselves playing the soundtrack.

All have played in many other bands, but to mention them here would be crass.

"The stuff we did for kicks, left a little scar I couldn't fix" - Role Models

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Sabo44: Terrible Feelings: Impending Doom 7"

Terrible Feelings’ date of birth was sometime during the fall of 2009, in

Malmö, Sweden. Anton and Manuela had been set on trying out new stuff that

was different from their previous band constellations, and recruited Andy and

Willy along the way. In April 2010 the band released a four-song demo, to some pretty rave

reviews. Since then, they’ve played all over Sweden and Germany, and shared stages with a variety of bands; Cheap Time, Cola Freaks, Screaming Females, and Tyvek, among others.

The spring of 2011 saw the release of two 7”s. Tied Up on Timmeheiehumme

Records from Germany, and Impending Doom, a co-release between Sabotage

Records and Manuela’s own Lack Of Sleep imprint.

Someone described the music as “Loud, dark, therapeutic, and rough around

the edges”, and Anton once said he played “black angst-ridden power pop.” Both quotes sum up Terrible Feelings pretty well. Place their sound somewhere in the wastelands between Wipers, Redd Kross, Ebba Grön and Murder City Devils.

In June they’ll embark on a three week European tour, which will take them through Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland. A Japanese release on the label Donuts Pop is scheduled for early fall 2011, and Scotch Tapes from Canada will release the demo tracks on tape and flexi disc sometime soon.

Terrible Feelings –

Impending Doom (b/w Death To Everyone)

Released in April 2011.

Vinyl 7-inch single (2 songs, 45 rpm).

Sabotage Records / Lack Of Sleep Records.

500 copies, 100 with green cover.

Contact:

terriblefeelings@gmail.com

http://terriblefeelings.blogspot.com

http://facebook.com/terriblefeelings

http://soundcloud.com/terrible-feelings

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Cat Party: S/T LP

Once again Flat Black is branching out from the so cal hardcore that they usually release. Cat Party’s first full length comes to us after an impressive debut EP and split 7” and displays a sound that reflects the gloomy hypnotism of bands like The Wipers or Joy Division. This also has some great guitar work that not only resonates with a Greg Sage influence but hints of early Christian Death can be found in the guitar playing. The vocals have that classically cool vibe of greats like Rik L. Rik with a solid rhythm section holding it all together and giving the tunes a nice backbeat. Whatever tags you want to put on it; post punk, new wave, punk, it doesn’t matter, they seamlessly bring together some of the best elements in music and bring a sound that is Cat Party. LP and CD differ a little bit in the track listing so check out both.

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