Nopes - Never Heard Of It - VINYL LP

Angst-fueled punk 'n' roll band NOPES return with their third head-butting album InchDjörkInch, which shows the Bay Area foursome more than ready to bury one of the most disastrous years in recent memory in a cacophony of disaffection and feedback. Bristling with angular riffs and glass-cutting hooks, InchDjörkInch is as unapologetically weird as it is offensively loud and noisy. True to their punk roots, NOPES bristle lyrically against work, class divisions, and the gentrifying soullessness of city life as youthful dreams are mercilessly stripped away. Completed during the band's pandemic hibernation, InchDjörkInch offers 13 compact blasts of raw snarl shot through with rock and noise credentials. It calls to mind fellow punk emissaries DRIVE LIKE JEHU and THE BRONX, while still maintaining NOPES' signature assault on the genre's boundaries.

The No Ones, a bi-continental collaboration featuring Scott McCaughey, Frode Strømstad, Peter Buck and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, is a band that stretches from the southwest of Norway through Athens, Georgia to the northwest corner of the USA, consisting of members from I Was A King, The Minus 5, The Baseball Project and R.E.M. As this pedigree almost dictates, they wield Fender and Rickenbacker guitars, cutting, chiming and fuzzing their way through songs dealing with abduction, interstellar mysteries, witchcraft, and more mundane fare like climate change, gentrification, and the desolation of the soul. The vocal harmonies and psychedelic flourishes fuse the sunny turbulent sounds of the ?60s with the darkness and decay of today.Tracklisting No One Falls Alone(Going Back To) Stockholm Syndrome Clementine Straight Into The Bridge All You Need Is Rain Sun Station Vadsø Cinnamon Roll Hair Dream Something Else Saucerful Of Nothing Too Blind to Believe Gone Sweet Home MississippiTurn Again Bonus 45 (First Edition LP Only)A Side ApplesB Side Slow Century

Not My God, [Tim Skold (SKOLD, ex-Marilyn Manson, Shotgun Messiah) & Nero Bellum (Psyclon 9)] returns with OBVERSES. Blending influences from both artist's main acts, OBVERSES moves at a more measured pace of malice than either of their main projects, slithering through all aspects of the darker, menacing side of industrial and dark electronic music.