HOMELESS update: DENNIS (ex Bits of Shit/Whipper) and WILFUL BOYS out now!

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Those Stickmen albums are so great

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Those Stickmen albums are so great

Two of Homeless' finest fer sure.
Mikey Young's remix job brought out more than was ever evident on the original CD releases.

Less than 12 hours remaining. (see earlier post for titles out of stock or if you experience any ordering issues)

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BEND SINISTER - Tape2 LP
Release date: 15th December, 2017

South Seattle in the mid-1990s was an industrial wasteland. On Airport Way, there was a large "diesel" sign with the last three letters burned out, leaving giant 10 feet tall red letters that said "DIE". This was the birthing grounds of Bend Sinister, a crucial step in the evolution of A FRAMES and INTELLIGENCE.
Erin Sullivan (guitar/vocals), Min Yee (bass), and Josh Turgeon (guitar) had previously tried out the names Impatiens and The Bends, playing their brand of obsessive, noise-drenched punk in some of Seattle's most notorious dive bars and clubs. In 1997, they joined up with drummer Steve Kaplan and mutated into BEND SINISTER, after a song by The Fall, a key influence.
Bonded by a love of black humor and scuzzy, dirgy, hypnotic, aggressive, punk, garage, and noise, Bend Sinister drew from a range of musical influences: The Scientists, The Fall, Stick Men With Ray Guns, Cows, Touch & Go, Halo of Flies, Pussy Galore, Scratch Acid, feedtime, X (Australia), Country Teasers, Electric Eels, The Who, The Damned, Crime, and obscure 60's garage.
They performed as a four piece for their first few shows, but then Josh left the band after a year and Bend Sinister was a trio for the next few years. Steve moved to LA after the first tour and was replaced by Lars Finberg.
When Josh returned toward the end of 1998, the band began to experiment with modes of all-out noise assaults ("Antibody"), and hyper charged punk adrenaline ("Radiation").
During this era, Bend Sinister earned a reputation as an insanely loud live band even by the standards of the Seattle punk scene. A couple gigs ended abruptly when club owners shut off the electricity and booted them from the venue.
Eventually, Josh left the band at the end of their second tour in 1999. Erin, Min and Lars changed the band name to A FRAMES and began focusing on a specific strain of art damaged punk that defined their sound over the next decade.
The only official recordings Bend Sinister left behind were two 7" singles (Spork Records, Vague Vinyl) and a self-released CD-R. For the first time, 'Tape2' presents this era of Bend Sinister - the last year before the name change, with Lars on drums, and some tracks are the 4-piece with Josh on guitar, some as just the trio.

Available for preorder here - shipping very soon:
https://homelessvinyl.com.au/product/bend-sinister-tape2/
Shipping just AUD $11 ($13 for 5-6 LPs)


Listen: https://homelessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tape2


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AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS - Big Attraction / Giddy Up 12"
Release date: 15th December, 2017

Homeless returns to its roots - BITS OF SHIT's Oz Punk classic Cut Sleeves - with AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS (Oz 70s-style punk-rock, think Coloured Balls / X-Ray Spex).

"Straddling the line between raucous 70s glam punk and the primitive pub rock riffs of Rose Tattoo" - 50THIRDAND3RD

"Amyl and the Sniffers are a garage punk band who sing about biffs, blowjobs and Chiko rolls. They're proudly sporting shitty tatts and they named their band after a seedy drug that provides a brief, intense euphoria, followed by a brutal headache - which may or may not be a metaphor. With the mullets, the aggression and the unflinching embrace of Australiana, Amyl and the Sniffers have been likened to the sharpie subculture of the '70s - a pre-punk movement that was birthed in Melbourne and characterised by "sharp" outfits and that quintessential Aussie larrikin attitude. The soundtrack to this era was Australian boogie: bands like Skyhooks, The Coloured Balls and AC/DC. Amy says she and the boys are definitely influenced by that '70s Aussie rock, but lyrically, she's also intrigued by the storytelling of country singers like Dolly Parton; she likes the cheek of a Southern woman in the 1960s singing about cheating on her husband." - THE FAT ANGEL

Colour vinyl and regular edition available for preorder here - shipping very soon:
https://homelessvinyl.com.au/product/amyl/
Shipping just AUD $11 ($13 for 5-6 LPs)


Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA0nEEMUz-g

Listen: https://homelessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/big-attraction-giddy-up


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Coming soon:

BIRD BLOBS - Back on the Beast LP - next up!
THE SAILORS - Failure, Depression, Suicide LP (2019)

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DENNIS - The Enthusiast

The debut of Melbourne punk rockers DENNIS  featuring members of Homeless illuminati BITS OF SHIT and Aarght Records WHIPPER (who also featured Nic Imfield of TYRANNAMEN and Lewis Hodgson of CIVIC / CUNTZ).

Songs are short, shards of your fave scratched 45's. Sounds swiped from the Saints, X, Germs... You witnessed Bits of Shit. You own the Whipper 45.

"four local gents from such esteemed high-grade/low-rent rock & roll units of yore as THE SAILORS and BITS OF SHIT. They're now a little older and perhaps no wiser, but they've made a really great album in the process. You'd have to be a smokin' joker not to hear the distinct GERMS influence in their music and Darby inflections in the vocals - but that is not a bad thing! Throw in some early SAINTS, ADOLESCENTS and Born Innocent-era REDD KROSS and you're orbiting the DENNIS universe." - Round and Round Records

"first wave nods to The Saints, Germs, and raw and ragged tales of The Stooges, though perhaps the most modern connection seems to be from Timmy Vulgar’s camp. There’s more than a bit of his acid gargle in the vocals here. There’s a snottiness to the record that’s surely on par with The Dead Boys, though the approach is much harsher — DENNIS boasts less swagger than even those degenerates and proudly so. This is a scum dredged vision of punk, just as it should be, soaked and sodden and wrung dry over the tape machine until all the bile was documented and decoded." - Raven Sings The Blues

order: https://homelessvinyl.com.au/product/dennis-the-enthusiast/
Cheap shipping outta our NY and Paris warehouses.
(Note: only one colour vinyl copy left in the States!

Also with Florida's Dying and coming soon to Sorry State. Hit up the others, they know how to grip copies.
Australia: https://strangeworldrecords.com.au/products/dennis-the-enthusiast-lp?_pos=1&_sid=f0c77f9b7&_ss=r
Europe: X-Mist, Born Bad, ETT, and coming soon to Don't Buy Records.




WILFUL BOYS - Life Lessons

Brooklyn, NY's THE WILFUL BOYS follow up to Rough As Guts, of which New Bomb Turks Eric Davidson stated "For the few mining the post-pig fuck sound of mid-’90s Amphetamine Reptile Records (and there are some), few make the brutal redux swing like this newbie Brooklyn bunch."

"The tunes thrash and shred and get a bit too noodle-y before going back to straightforward rock’n’roll. All that seemingly messiness sounds kind of nice with the lights turned down and your head on the floor." - Carolyn Keddy, MRR

"it's noisy and although quotes from reviews had me expecting a more Aussie flavoured dish, I'm picking up similarities in sound to Stevenage band Bad Breeding. Maybe I should wash my ears out? Anyway, it's good stuff. This is my favourite so far by them." - Just Some Punk Songs

“The perfect modern companion to the Cosmic Psychos and Easy Action Records that helped countless young men grow chest hair in the ’90s.” – Matt K, Yellow Green Red

order: https://homelessvinyl.com.au/product/the-wilful-boys-life-lessons/
(Note: colour wax gone everywhere! Try the band, or X-Mist in EU...)
Cheap shipping outta our NY and Paris warehouses.

Also with Florida's Dying and coming soon to Sorry State. Hit up the others, if they can use email, they know how to grip copies.
Australia: https://strangeworldrecords.com.au/products/wilful-boys-life-lessons-lp?_pos=3&_sid=ad3710831&_ss=r
Europe: X-Mist, Born Bad, ETT, and coming soon to Don't Buy Records.