SLANG

"devastation in the void"
Year:  2016
Country:  Japan
City:  Sapporo
Label:  Prank
Format:  CD , LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk        Hardcore

This is the legendary Sapporo Japan's band's 7th album, an 11-song destructive mix of pummeling japanese hardcore, pounding New York hardcore breakdowns and metallic thrashing with Political lyrics. A More direct album than their previous Prank Releases, it's still sunk deep with heavy riffage, hard vocal attack and crushing rhythms. Comes in a thick sleeve with a 11x22" color insert with lyrics in Japanese and English. First pressing limited to 512 copies. This is it's first time on Vinyl, though this has been out awhile in Japan on CD from Pizza Of Death, as well as CD from Cleopatra in the US.

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"story outhines doom"
Year:  2014
Label:  Cleopatra
Format:  CD , LP
Tracks:  15
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk        Hardcore

"Cleopatra Records" CD debut of the devastating release from Japan’s greatest crust punk band, SLANG, this time packaged in a nice digipack with 20 page booklet with bio, pics, contacts, etc.

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SUBWAY SECT

"sansend"

Year:  2002

Label:  Motion

Format:  CD

Tracks:  16

Time:  40 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        New Wave

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"1978 now"
Year:  2007
Country:  UK
City:  London
Label:  Overground
Format:  CD
Tracks:  16
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:         Punk Rock

SUBWAY SECT are one of the first british punk bands. Although their commercial success was limited by the small amount of recorded material they released, they have been credited as highly influential on the "Postcard Records" scene and the indie pop genre which followed. The core of the band was singer/songwriter, Vic Godard, plus assorted soul fans, who congregated around early gigs by the Sex Pistols until Malcolm McLaren suggested they formed their own band. Subway Sect were among the performers at the 100 Club Punk Festival on Monday, 21 September 1976 - sharing the bill with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash and the Sex Pistols. The first line-up of Godard on vocals, Paul Packham on drums, Paul Myers on bass and Rob Symmons on guitar lasted for 4 gigs before Mark Laff replaced Packham. Laff himself would leave for fellow punk group Generation X after the White Riot tour. SUBWAY SECT is not limited to one style: starting off with as singer / songwriter sound they plunged the London late 70s punk scene recording from punk to jazz to folk to mod music.

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"1979 now"
Year:  2014
Label:  A.E.D
Format:  CD , LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Indie Rock

The story of Subway Sect is a fascinating one, almost screenplay-worthy. Missed opportunity, iconoclasm at its finest, and a lot of good, good music would fill the pages, with Godard the artist at the center. While he's never stopped moving forward and recording new material, in 2007 he and some mates decided to revisit recordings made in 1978 that were due to have become the first Subway Sect album, but were instead buried and ultimately lost. He decided to do the same thing with a demo tape made in 1979 that never came to fruition. The songs were inspired by the pounding beats and sweet sounds of Northern Soul; one of them, "Holiday Hymn," was rescued by Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice back in their early days. Working with original Sect bassist Paul Myers, who had originally introduced Godard to Northern Soul, ex-Sex Pistol Paul Cook on drums, plus Kevin Younger, Mark Braby, and Yusuf B’Layachi, Godard turns the clock back admirably with the expert production skills of Seb Lewsley and Vic's old mate Collins. The songs have the propulsive rhythms, percussive guitars, and percolating bass of Northern Soul nailed, are recorded with little fuss and lots of punch, and sung with panache by Godard. He's not a great singer by any means, but he does have one thing you can't learn, though, and that's charisma. He yowls and howls through the songs here like Kevin Rowland's wise older brother, giving it everything he's got, and the big beat gives him all the cover he needs. It's not surprising OJ dug out "Holiday Hymn," it's more surprising that the rest of the songs weren't snapped up by bands who needed a hit in 1979 or thereabouts. Every song has a brilliantly shiny chorus, chord changes that inspire deep nostalgic feels, and a snappy, tough-minded lyrical outlook that fit the era and still sounds right in 2014. It's a shame these recordings never saw the light of day back then, and that the original demo isn't available, but Godard and his crew do a fine job bringing them to life finally and fully.

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JAWBREAKER

"dear you"
Year:  1995
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Alternative Rock








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"24 hour revenge"
Year:  1994
Country:  US
City:  San Francisco
Label:  Tupelo
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:         Pop Punk

Independently minded and adhering to the old-school D.I.Y. punk mentality, West Coast punk pop trio Jawbreaker's street-smart - yet poetic - lyrics, spirited musicality, and marathon live shows put them a cut above contemporaries like Green Day and Blink-182. After a series of EPs and singles, guitarist / singer Blake Schwarzenbach, bassist Chris Bauermeister and drummer Adam Pfahler released the band's debut album, Unfun, in 1989. Independent label San Francisco Tupelo Records signed the group the following year, releasing Bivouac in 1991 and their breakthrough record, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, in 1993. As 1995 saw the first in a three-record deal with DGC, fans were split over the band's newfound success and move to a major label. But Jawbreaker were undeterred, releasing the influential Dear You, a powerhouse collection of punk, grunge, and emo that paved the way for groups like Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional. Sadly, the group disbanded in the late-'90s, leaving 2002's Etc., a collection of all of the group's non-album material, as their last will and testament. Dear You was reissued by Blackball in 2004. ~ James Christopher Monger .

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"unfun"
Year:  1990
Label:  Shredder
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Pop Punk








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STRAWMAN
"idem"
Year:  1991
Label:  Allied
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  34 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock








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STRAWMAN
"the lottery"
Year:  1995
Label:  Allied
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  34 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock







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CHELSEA

"mission impossible"
Year:  2017
Label: Westworld
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  34 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock

CHELSEA were noted for their socialist, left wing ideas and the raw emotion of their early live gigs. Their first single, Right To Work, dealing with unemployment, was their most popular song. After spending 1977-78 touring in the UK and overseas, they released their first LP, Chelsea, in 1979. Their second LP "alternative hits" was released in 1980. The band released this studio album "mission impossible" in 2017 (the tenth one in its large discography). Since 1976 they continue to record and tour.

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"saturday night sunday morning"
Year:  2015
Label:  Let Them Eat Vinyl
Format:  CD , LP 
Tracks:  12
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:         Punk Rock

Even in the early days, CHELSEA didn't pursue the buzzsaw punk stereotype, instead favoring a less-fevered, sometimes lumbering intensity, redolent of an ignorant, lower-class background. CHELSEA does offer plenty of thrills, however. The band was since the first moment influenced by soft pop melodies, clear voices and some kind of socialist attitude closer to The Clash, The Jam or The Ruts. This "saturday night" album probably is the most clear sample of its atraction for the classic, mid-tempo and elegant british pop music of the 60's decade, some ones even describe this album as melodic punk rock with politically charged lyrics.

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"faster, cheaper and better looking"
Year:  2005
Label:  TK
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:         Punk Rock

Once more into the breach, dear friends. The continuing saga of Chelsea has rarely failed to throw up at least a handful of invigorating surprises, and Faster Cheaper and Better Looking, the band's first studio release since their 1999 reunion, maintains that tradition. Indeed, with three members of the "classic," late-'70s lineup still on-board (Gene October, James Stevenson, and Chris Bashford, joined by latter-day Buzzcocks bassist Tony Barber), the band has arguably erased the memory of the chaos that reigned through the 1980s and 1990s and finally delivered the follow-up to Alternative Hits -- not at all coincidentally the last album to feature the same trio. A dozen-songs strong, Faster Cheaper and Better Looking opens with the one-two punch of "Living in the Urban UK" and "Sod the War," disaffected war cries that prove the Chelsea pen remains as sharp as it ever was -- Chelsea's greatest asset in the early days was its frontman's ability not simply to identify with his audience, but to actually morph with it, until his very lyrics became the slogans that decorated a million T-shirts. That remains true today, although the rage is also tinted with resignation -- like it says in the closing "If We Knew Then," "when we were 15, we thought we could rule the world. But now you're 50...." That, however, is the album's only acknowledgement of the years that have passed since Chelsea's youth, and this is wholly the sound of a band in its prime, vital and powerful, melodic and marching - faster, cheaper and, yeah, if you like, maybe even better looking as well. This good punk rock was made at the moment three times through labels: "TKO Records", "Captain Oi!" and "Let Them Eat Vinyl". I repeat... very good punk rock friends.
(*review by Dave Thompson ).

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"evacuate"
Year:  1982
Label:  Step Forward
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  34 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock

After their self-titled debut album in 1979 and the second one entitled "no escape" (1980), this was the turn of their third recording, which become softer, slowier and more melodic and clean, closer to new wave or simple pop music as early 80s style. Despite this new wave orientation, "evacuate" continues to being a good punk rock recording in the usual Chelsea style. Just ten songs in no more than thirty minutes with lyrics which move to casual live to charged politics themes.

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"no escape"
Year:  1980
Label:  IRS
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock

Here's a reissue of the second full-length by punk pioneers Chelsea. Originally issued in 1980, the album contains powerful yet melodic songs with politically charged lyrics. Actually this album was never considered as official but rather some kind of compilation or collection. It exist also under another title "Alternative hits", but is usually considered as CHELSEA second album because is the only one way to listen to all their song writen between their debut album (1979) and their third one (1982). The true is "No escape" become as one of the best but the best CHELSEA recording and contains twelve songs more than essential to understand this band and its way to writen songs. Highly recommended for those lovers of old and classic punk rock.

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"idem"
Year:  1979
Label:  Step Forward
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock







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ABRASIVE WHEELS

"skum"
Year:  2009
Country:  UK
City:  Leeds
Label:  Rebel Sound
Format:  CD
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock

Oriniginally recorded in 2009 through label "Crashed Out", in 2013 was re-released with some sound changes and a complete new artwork. Despite the band started in 1977, this is its third studio album and the result is frankly good and more than satisfactory. Simple punk rock with few touches and influences of classic rock'n'roll or even hard rock with lyrical themes about social issues, politics, life on the streets, anti-war, etc. If you liked its debut album but not much its second one, this "Skum" turn to its roots, I mean its debut. Great guitars, great sound and great album no doubt. Highly recommended.

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