Geld
Perfect Texture
Iron Lung (2018)
Geld’s Perfect Texture is 11 tracks, 23 minutes, 41 seconds: walloping wallaby! I feel like I’m back in my initial stomping grounds of Lethbridge, Alberta, a place that must exist in Geld's stomping grounds of Melbourne, Australia. Back in Canada’s Loyal Order of the Moose community hall, standing in an awkward half circle, ceiling too high, among their powerful nasty noise exuding insanity in compounded chaos as their songs bounce off the walls harshly, I can imagine Geld’s overblown guitars sounding like broken down computer bellowing their last death rattle in front of 12 kids and an alcoholic club owner, an incessant pounding drum set coupled with buzz saw bass drowning out a heavily reverberated vocalist. On the walls among the Rorschach stains of mold can be read a form of abstract pain, understood differently by each person, seemingly plastered and grown over the years by the same grimy frustration Geld aspirates in Perfect Texture, like an old sun exposed face.The album sounds like an electrified sandstorm blowing over no mans land in the North American Great Plains. The guitar and bass cake on layers of panoramic fuzz, the tom-toms are undefined and muddy, and the cymbals sting a harsh … Read more
The Claudettes
Dance Scandal At The Gymnasium!
Yellow Dog Records (2018)
Do you like to be challenged every now and then? Just so that you are forced out of your comfort … Read more
Marriage Material
Making the Worry Worth It
Dirt Cult (2018)
I like this Making the Worry Worth It record. That should be all a review needs, right? I say that … Read more
