Cracked Off With The Fever

Ah, that dreaded day back after a long weekend. Well, hopefully these two balltearers will propel you in the right direction, kicking and screaming all the way.


That pesky Off! album is finally, FINALLY out today! And here is another track off it. I love that so many are being drip-fed to the rabid masses. Sure, most of the album will be accessible in bite-size pieces all over the Net, but that is punk! Give the fans what they want. And I need no nonsense punk to the crotch, stat.

Off! - Cracked

Ah fuck it - here is the whole album!


And of course we have this London trio to make sure this raging high is maintained. New track 'The Chair' is Fever Fever's first true single, and was put out yesterday through Kissability (whose first release was the UK distribution of Brisbane wunderkinds DZ Deathrays' Ruined My Life EP - they know their shit). It offers a more bridled facet of the trio, yet is still ballsy and plays with convention a lot, two things these Norwich hellraisers will always have in spades. This track is actually a bit like Blood Red Shoes, but not crap (Ill admit I used to like BRS, but I think they have disappeared down the mainstream/pretension hole...) Buy the cassingle here - these kids just keep getting better. They are playing The Great Escape this weekend too - check em out if you are there.

One In, All In...Side A Horse...

Brighton continue to pump out worthy yet quirky rock acts, don't they? Must be all the cockles... Everyone To The Anderson are the new band Im referring to, releasing their debut album The Man Born From Inside Of A Horse today via Unlabel. You can tell they like their dissonant, irreverent, verbose acts, from the lengthy album title to the lyrics held within these sinewy tracks. The instrumentation itself is a mixture of Antidotes-era Foals, 90s Dischord (think a lighter shade of Fugazi) as well as some of the more angular mid 90s Sub Pop acts. With a bit of Blood Red Shoes, Pulled Apart By Horses and Future Of The Left for good measure. Can too many influences spoil the broth? Au contraire, mon frere! The funniest thing is that whilst Everyone To The Anderson is never as good at the particular style that each of these aforementioned artists are cornerstones of, but by utilising each technique create something else entirely, a sound that is equal parts exciting and refreshing. They can brood - see 'Danzig High Flyer' - but are best when they are being bizarrely obtuse whilst pulling lefts and rights with wily precision. Check punchy 'Computermen' for their delicately built countenance to implode spectacularly, whilst opener 'High Brow, Low Brow, No Eyebrow' is the sum of all their parts. This is an assured debut - expect them to climb the UK live ladder this summer...

Everyone To The Anderson - Let's Take This To Smithereens