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  • vr volume 5Volume 5: A Label Compilation to Ruin Any Party – Various Artists (Voodoo Rhythm)

    A good judge once said that when Voodoo Rhythm releases are good, they’re very good. If you’re applying the label motto, “Music to ruin any party”, this compilation borders on great. Mind you, you’re also inviting the wrong kind of people to your knees-ups.

    Voodoo Rhythmis resuming its compilation series after a long lay-off and there’s no better place for the uninitiated to dive in.

    Garage Rock is such an overused term. Voodoo Rhythm trade in it – and then some. If it’s not too ableist, let’s call their catalogue “Helen Keller Mistaking a Vegetable Slicer for a Braille Textbook” and be done with it. The aural output is typically raw, violent and bloody.

  • youre class im trash cvrYou’re Class, I’m Trash – The Monsters (Voodoo Rhythm)

    Two weeks to write, a fortnight to record - cynics would doubt both claims - and the eighth album from these Swiss lunatics is testament to what you can achieve when you set out to annoy the living shit out of audiences.

    “You’re Class, I’m Trash” is unadulterated fuzz guitar abrasion, a boil on the arse of commercially safe and bland music, with occasional diversions into sonic weirdness. And it sounds fucking great.

  • barman 2021 top ten

    The Barman’s Best Albums of 2021, in reverse order of release.

    1. Back For More – The On and Ons(Citadel)
    Perfect rocking powerpop from Australia’s most consistent exponents of the art. If you haven’t heard them yet, shame. Start here and track backwards.

    2. Snake Pit Therapy – Sonny Vincent (Svart)
    New York punk’s (almost) last man standing bounces back with his best-sounding and arguable most well-rounded album ever. Sonny has been hidden in plain sight for the many for far too long.

    3. You’re Class, I’m Trash – The Monsters (Voodoo Rhythm)
    Beat-Man and his buddies have made trash an art form like few others before them. This record should make a junkie of you.

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The Men From U.N.C.L.E.
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+ The Tall Stories
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The Stranglers
50 Years In Black  
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MAR
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