Limited two-track 7” in a run of 400 copies from this great band who manage to combine an almost classic 60s/70s rock/cowpunk delivery with a barbarous destructo edge, powerful vox and a recording aesthetic that would blow up the backline altogether, leaving a guitar banging a bunch of chords lifted straight from The Birthday Party and played early Rough Trade-style. A side is the raunch, the flip is more hypnotic and minimal. Both rule.

"Following the imminent collapse of Detroit's long-running punk rock killers the CLONE DEFECTS frontman TIMMY VULGAR took a little time off before he assembled the world's weirder HUMAN EYE. Putting the "what the fuck are they doing?!?" back in punk rock, Human Eye is a psychedelic and synth-freak out organism with a sneering skeleton that's trapped in a basement covered with Misfits posters and Electric Eels bootleg tapes on the floor. The most punk-rooted of the recent movement of new and thoroughly insane Detroit bands who are drinking spray paint or Sparks (depending on which is cheaper) and making really exciting, really fucked up new sounds. This 7-inch follows their debut LP on In The Red Records last year and has three exclusive songs, including a cover of weirdo forefathers The Urinals. Full colour jackets, insane splatter coloured vinyl and only 500 made." - Ypsilanti.

Triple A 7” EP from this excellent, crude Detroit underground group who channel classic lo-grade DIY moves ala the Desperate Bicycles cultus via the more raggedy ends of the Killed By Death/Bloodstains camp. Think Injections play Modern Lovers produced by Jim Shepard. Recommended.

Debut LP from this group after a buncha collectable 7s. The sound here is less overtly DIY than their early sides might suggest, with an uncanny feel for rock-form freedom that at points sounds as lubricated as Dez Cadena-era Black Flag if they hadda been shooting for a more specifically post-Beefheart freak aspect. The whole group have a lolloping, crude desert feel that combines garage gasoline and feral/sophisto Trout Mask smarts like no one this side of The Flesheaters, even as they reduce the pugilistic hardcore of that group to monosyllabic extended single chord jams and choruses of leary tongue. I mean, it’s still possible to hear alla the UK DIY influence that scarred their singles but there’s something more classic USA garage wipe-out to this album that makes it sound even meatier and worthy of repeat spins.

Supremely crude LP from Tyvek, with original demos recorded in 2004 finally making it to wax in an edition of 500 copies with full-colour paste-on sleeves. If you dug the Blunt Instrumental EP that came out on Night People then this is another blast from that particular garage, with a fantastically primitive sound that explodes aspects of The Fall, early Redd Cross, The Rats and The Afflicted Man with all of the non-musicianly élan of your favourite DIY no count. I mean, I dig the Siltbreeze LP and all but this is my kind of meat. Highly recommended.

Best volume yet of this great on-going limited compilation series that takes the temperature of the underground circa now. Exclusive tracks from Vivian Girls, Blank Dogs, Times New Viking, Intelligence, Guinea Worms, Sic Alps, Thee Oh Sees, Tyvek and Pink Reason. Epochal and highly recommended.