Bandcamp/No Wave/Cassette Releases

Ten songs from recent and relatively recent no wave cassette releases available on Bandcamp.

New Punk on Bancamp: ARSE from Sydney and Flesh Narc from Denton

I wasn't going to do a post tonight because I wanted to doof around on Steam, but then I saw both ARSE and Flesh Narc have new stuff out.

ARSE is a three piece from Sydney and their new 5 song EP is called Safe Word. Their November 2017 digital debut, Primitive Species, is great and features one of my favorite tunes of the past few years, NRVSNRG.

While I'm prone to enjoy extremely lo-fi, not-produced demos, the production on Safe Word immediately grabbed me, and didn't let go. Great work all around. $12 plus shipping for the 7" from the ARSE page, and $3 for the digital release on Erste Theke Tontraeger Records, also a CNQ fave.

ETT, a German label, puts out a ton of cool stuff. Worth checking out.

Flesh Narc, from Denton, Texas, have a new 9 song cassette called "Understanding Reality." You can pre-order from the NY label Decoherence Label. My frame of reference for Flesh Narc is "Beefheartian," which translates as, it's bonkers. They're touring right now so go check em out if you see em listed in yr free weekly:

New from Bandcamp: Assorted Rock'n'Roll from Copenhagen, Austin, Melbourne, Salem, Milwaukee, Los Angeles...and Some Place or Places in Florida.

Nothing is cooler than Jævndøgn, from Copenhagen. Their 2016 release Punkkoncert is one of my fave things ever. This is their new killer 4 song EP:

Indie-prog from Austin. This is from a 17 song digital album released last year:

From Melbourne, released late in February, 8 tracks of bitchin' lo-fi disco-punk:

Hardcore from Salem, Massachusetts. 4 song EP:

When I first started the blog, I was just learning about powerviolence and the more modern version of hardcore punk that careens into extreme metal. I got deep into those genres for a while, then moved on to other stuff as I do, but I still appreciate the sound. This band from Milwaukee has tagged themselves as hardcore punk on their Bandcamp page, but it's more metal than hardcore punk, which to me is more like what Similar Items in the previous embed sounds like. Anyway, this is solid. 8 short, heavy songs, a little sludge, a little powerviolence:

Check out this wild four song no-wave freak-punk, put out on cassette by Florida's Invisible Audio, who also put out Jackal's excellent 2017 Demo tape -- I ordered the last one of those they had, and have never looked back.

Here's that Jackal I was telling you about:

Psych-punk from LA. 5 song digital effort. Beefheartian, I dig it:

New Rock'n'Roll from Bandcamp

Got a March podcast coming up with some new tunes and vinyl oldies and oddities, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, let's take a look at some new stuff from Bandcamp, a lot of which will be on said podcast, because it's cool.

From Baltimore, this is off a solid full-length released last year, highly enjoyable freak-pop:

New post-punk from somewhere in Texas. 4 song EP releases in March, on lathe cut plexidisc made by Precarian Cuts (and digital on bandcamp). I'm into this track, weird maybe I haven't heard of them yet, but maybe not -doesn't look like they have played the D before. Or maybe I just missed 'em when they did:

Here's Filthy's first 3 song EP, from 2016, for pay what thou wilt:

Four song EP available on vinyl for $6 + S&H, from Chicago. This is my bag:

Best song from a noisy 4 song effort from Lima, Peru, $1 for four songs:

Seven badass tracks from Indonesia. Can relate:

From New Orleans, holy geeze I'm into this -- 8 song digital release -- no-wave, noise, futureglam!?

1981

1981 was a solid year for crazy experimental post-punk, damaged pop and general weirdo rock and roll. Some amazing person has brought together a 9 disc box set of completely radical tunes from the year. MX-80, PIL, Gang Of Four, The Clean and many more! Dig it. The Complete '1981' Box Set

Beautiful & Disturbing

Patrick Flegel, formerly of Women, has an incredibly cool and weird record available from CCQSK Records. Check the whole album worth of super haunting tunes via Dropbox here.

Weirdo Lo-Fi from Sweden and Japan, Garage-Psych from France, No-Wave from Brisbane, Argentinian Hardcore Punk, Jangle-Pop from D.C., and All Kinds of Punk from All Over Creation.

While waiting for Total War: SHOGUN 2 to dl on Steam (currently on sale for $12.49 and supposedly the pinnacle of the Total War games), I thought I'd finish up on December releases from bands and label I follow. These monthly updates might be getting a little repetitive, with a rotation of the same bands and labels every update. I'm working on that. Meanwhile, here's more of what you've come to expect from a standard CNQ update.

This awesome oddball lo-fi pop is the new solo project of Martin Månsson Sjöstrand, frontman of Sweden’s Dog, Paper, Submarine. Comes courtesy of perennial CNQ favorite Manx label Small Bear Records:

More weirdo lo-fi, this from Japan. I've featured Boys Age a lot in 2015. Cool, weird stuff:

No-wave from Brisbane's Moontown Records. I'm not sure where the band Bent is from though:

Glasgow freak-out:

Garage-psych from France:

More garage-psych by Boys, off a PNKSLM 2015 End of the Year Sampler:

Great jangle with a new video from Washington DC's Dot Dash:

Feminist punk from Olympia:

And more, this from a Bridge Nine 2015 compilation. War on Women are from Baltimore and I'll mention again, are a great live show:

New power pop from from Sweden. This sounds like it's from 1983 but I think it is new:

From Fort Wayne, Indiana:

Found this Argentinian crusty hardcore courtesy France's Crapoulet Records. This was released back in October:

Finally, this is from Puerto Rico's Krampus Records, who brought us one of my fave new bands of 2015, Madd Blake and the Stalins.