No Misunderstanding The Glow Kit

It's been a good week on Planet Masala for punk tainted, garage-tinged rock and/or roll, let me tell you! Ty Segall, The Hussy, The Harlequins, Each Other, Night Of Joy - and you can now add Denmark's own Glow Kit to the mix.You might remember me raving about Cola Freaks last year - well, Glow Kit has members from that collective, so you know we're in good hands. This self-titled LP (out through Danish label Kanel Records - you can grab it here) is packed full of short spikes of garage pop punk blasts, beer bongs for the ears. Hooks and melodies aplenty, yet deep fried in noise, these tracks sizzle. It's a fantastic album with huge injections of addictive substances - you won't be able to leave this album alone, even if you wanted to. Which you won't so it's all cool.


You can grab Glow Kit from German label P. Trash Records and from FDH Records in North America.

Glow Kit - Stood A Chance
Glow Kit - Head Factory
Glow Kit - Misunderstood

Women Loving Each Other

I miss Women, the Calgary act whose two albums Women and Public Strain are two of my favourite albums of the past decade. They may be sadly no more, but there are others mining that seam, such as fellow Canadians Each Other. Their Taking Trips EP of last year (put out by Prison Art) is one I'm only now getting into, and how! Six songs of discordant, off kilter guitar noisy pop, a post-punk menagerie of jangly, experimental guitars and rusted, off-key melodies.

I believe the EPs are sold out - sucks, it's damned great, you can still get it digitally here - but they have since released a 7" through Crikey! Records (who have put out two 7"s for Happy New Year). Traces To Nowhere/Sit Still is slightly cleaner, slightly more straightforward, yet inimitably Each Other, like looking back in time through a hall of mirrors, a truly warped interpretation. i can't wait to see what they come up with next - they are potentially filling a Women-sized hole in my soul...

Grab the 7" here.

Each Other - Goosing Statues (from Taking Trips)
Each Other - Steam Scene (from Taking Trips)

Each Other - Sit Still (from Traces To Nowhere/Sit Still 7")