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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / out now CUNTZ Aloha LP on Homeless
« on: January 02, 2013, 09:18:00 PM »
Debut release on new Melbourne-based label. Limited to 300 hand numbered copies, vinyl only.
Includes download code.
Recorded by Alex Macfarlane (Constant Mongrel, Boomgates).
Mastered by Mikey Young.
2nd pressing now available!!
Try the stores listed below for remaining copies.
List updated 17th April, 2013.
Immediate download and LP can be purchased here:
http://homelessrecords.bandcamp.com/
Distributed in the US by Revolver.
Distributed in Europe by http://www.dontbuyrecords.blogspot.com.au/
In Australia, 'Aloha' can be found here:
MELBOURNE/VIC
Greville, Missing Link/Record Collectors Corner, Off The Hip, Polyester, Round & Round, Sweet Little Hifi, Thornbury, Title, Vicious Sloth, Licorice Pie, Ritual
INTERSTATE STORES
Title, Red Eye, Repressed (all Sydney), Rocking Horse (Brisbane), Tommy Gun (Hobart), Clarity (Adelaide), White's Records (Newcastle) and Music Farmers in Wollongong.
Reviews:
CUNTZ - ALOHA LP (Homeless)
Second release on Homeless records after Bits Of Shit's debut full lenght and it's yet another winner record. Hailing from Melbourne Cuntz merge sludge with dissonant noise-rock and 70s punk. Many current bands play a simular brand of music, but Cuntz unique and authentic style set themself apart from the common noise punk. "Aloha" is characterised by it's sheer ugliness without a spark of hope both lyricaly and musicaly. Massive drum beats, that sometimes seem to break together are paired with powerful bass lines and a excellent mixture of straight blasting punk guitar riffs and manic squeaking. In some songs they also use alien-sounding synth-parts, making it even more weird. The super harsh vocals are modified with reverbs. They sound like they were recorded in cold echo cave. Of course Flipper are a obvious reference. Even if currently everything noisy seems to be compared with Flipper it's appropiate here. Add some Jesus Lizard like noise-rock and classic Aussie punk vibe in the vein of X and Psycho Surgeons and you might get a idea, how great this record is! - Ride A Dove
I'll say it for the hundredth time: these new Australian bands just continue to kick asses and take names. 'Aloha' kicks off 2013 with a massive headache, coming off like Flipper and Venom P. Stinger in a head-on collision. Pick up the pieces and glue them back together haphazardly and you get this. "Homeless" is not a dedication to their label, but about the actual homeless. And eating ice cream. They are truly delving into the seedy side here. Songs about meth, bums, alcholism, gambling and other filthy vices. I was sure this band were a bunch of grizzled veterans, but from what I've gleaned they're a bunch of young up-n-cummers, a new wave of Aussie muckers rolling about in the dirt. Thank god for them. There are plenty of throbbing basslines here, a rhythmm machine that operates at two speeds: steamroller and tank. The vox are a treat, as the fella sounds like a nutter, spitting out his tales from the wrong side of the tracks like a forceful drunk conversationalist - staring direct in your eyes and talking AT you, not to you, and certainly not allowing you to get any words in edgewise. They're not just head-down pummelers though, these guys have some finesse, some clever post-punky tricks, a devious Fall-like twist of the shiv here and there. "Lost" slips in an electrified keyboard bleat while this guy puts a new twist on the David Yow lyrical approach. This melts into "Meth", which pastes together a sticky synth-line and pointy guitar. Really seasick in a way that truly does recall Flipper. "Hip Hop" comes up with another incredible synth sound (or is that a fucking guitar?!) that I believe they stole from a Tubeway Army record and repurpose here for ultimate rhythmic hypnosis while this guy mumbles his lines like he has dementia. "Punt" is ground-in-the-dirt pound with a touching AC/DC tribute. As I've said already, the singer does a good thing by using Yow's stylish cadence/ramble for his delivery but not adopting the actual singing voice (if that makes any sense). At this point in the record you'll feel as if you need a punch in the face, and "Hoonin'" delivers it. "Mum" is a monolith that sounds like heavy mining equipment operating in a massive cavern a few leagues under sea level, very dangerously close to the earth's crust. They end the record on a pleasant note, which I'll leave you to discover on your own. Just a massive, massive record, and one of a very few (if any at all) that are deserving of the Venom P. Stinger namedrop. Scum stats: painfully limited to 300 copies, but I've heard rumors of a repress...(RK) terminal-boredom
CUNTZ are from Melbourne -- a punk band in the tradition of the best Australian punk bands. Simplicity is the aim of the game. Riffs of abrasion, akin to the earliest work of the Victims or Venom P. Stinger. Lyrical starls/mumbles similar to Mark E had he not been a midnight rambler. CUNTZ offer a refreshing take on the "gutter rock" that has permeated the Australian underground in recent years.
clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9YWz456m8&fb_source=message
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