A Strange Split Adolescence Is Only Natural

Another amazing Scion Garage A/V release, this time a split between The Strange Boys and Natural Child.

The former offers 'American Radio' - four and a half minutes of just about every genre you can think of spliced by a bored commuter dialling through the stations on a lonely pitch black night. Every section is so good - funny, poignant, spot on - in fact you want all of them to be true songs! Its fantastic. Although the fact that they aren't actual songs will probably infuriate quite a few - but I still found it a good listen.

Then Nashville's own Natural Child comes along with 'The Jungle', a track that is far too short. It’s a boozy campfire sing-a-long that foregoes the jock with the Jack Johnson predilection and instead is played by crackheads around a fire in a metal drum. With Back To The Future references.

You'll be able to get this one on Record Store Day - be a good one to add to this ever excellent series.

American Radio - The Strange Boys

The Jungle - Natural Child

Sex Beet Cleans Up, Gets Dirty With Spaced Out Human Eye

Scion A/V Garage keep putting out ace 7" splits (check out the Jacuzzi Boys/Nobunny no-brainer here!), and this time off the turntable its a good lil friend of ours - Sex Beet! On the split with Detroit's Human Eye, Sex Beet's 'Alone' is incredibly cleaned up compared to their previous efforts - you can hear the vocals! you can feel the squalling organ! you can smell the blood and spunk! - yet is still as stupidly infectious as ever. Of course Human Eye dont go down in flames either, their 'Martian Queen' takes a skewed Misfits approach to their punk, a nebulous journey that has brought something back with it...

Human Eye - Martian Queen
Sex Beet - Alone

Jacuzzi Boys/Nobunny

I havent really harped on about how much I dig Nobunny's First Blood. It is goddamned catchy, fun, stupid, and idiot savant style brilliant. I definitely havent spoken much about Jacuzzi Boys' No Season from last year. Both are unadulterated joys of garage punk fun, and really need more of you to buy these pieces of vinyl and wear out your needle on them.

Don't believe me?

Good, cos these two acts have made an unholy alliance in this 7" split brought to us by Scion A/V Records' brilliant Garage collection (which also features the likes of Black Lips, Pierced Arrows (ex-Dead Moon), the Spits and The Dirtbombs). 'Someone Else's Brain' has the Fluffy One in acoustic mode, yet still with his skewed adolescent musings intact, whilst Jacuzzi Boys continue their guttural dominance with 'Coral Girls', a sweaty number that swaggers its way from the Florida swamps to your joyous ear. Great stuff, just to remind you how great they are.

Nobunny - Someone Else's Brain

Jacuzzi Boys - Coral Girls