AUGUST 2024

Calling all Scums,
 
We're back yet again to ruin the Summer groove even more with another couple of scorching hot slabs of punk rock...
 
NFTR333 – FLAT EARTH BOOTBOYS S/T LP
Twelve cuts of primitive American Oi! about the Earth being flat featuring members of Oil! And Scunthorpe Yobs. Blending classic, straightforward Oi! with a dose of humour injected into it, the songs are good enough to stand on their own and they show a genuine appreciation and respect for the music that inspired them. The songs are mostly mid-paced with throat shredding vocals over solid riffs and singing leads with just the right amount of comedic twist. FFO The Last Resort, Oil!, Templars,  Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects. GET IT HERE.
 
NFTR335 - CRYSTALLISED MINDS S/T LP
Melodic and catchy post punk from London featuring members of Miscalculations and La Rabbia. This debut album presents 12 well-written songs that combine elements of punk rock, post punk, synth and 80's shoegaze/indie with lyrics that are able to blend dystopian unease with optimism and themes of death and isolation paired with hopefulness and enthusiasm. Much like Miscalculations, the song themes are purposefully cryptic and hard to dissect. Musically, Crystallised Minds are very layered and can switch from forceful and driving to delicately elegant seamlessly within the same composition. The record is housed in amazing cover art by Alex Couwenberg.FFO Joy Division, Interpol, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure, Dag Nasty, Embrace. GET IT HERE.
 
Still hot and going fast:
 
NFTR332 KAMIIKAZZE 'RESURRECCION' 12" 
Hardcore punk from Bogotá, Colombia with a stripped-down, direct thrashing approach that is intense and furious. Recorded by the infamous Rat Trap collective in Bogotá by Muro’s Carlos Vélasquez and Primer Regimen’s Santiago González - this is a band to keep a serious eye and ear on... these 8 cuts are the start of something very special. For fans of Discharge, Muro, SUB, English Dogs, Armagedom, Ignorantes, Porvenir Oscuro, Koro, Gauze. GET IT HERE.
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NFTR330 DA GROINS 'MAXIMUM GROIN' LP 
A feral Killed By Death howl from the festering, spider and rat-infested garage, DA GROINS finally release their first album: ten tracks of raw and primitive punk rock.  
 

Recorded with barely functioning instruments and smashed through in one take, the tunes buzz all over the place with not a moment’s thought for fidelity or corporate edge-smoothing.  A total no-frills production that simply captures all the snot and dribble in full glory. As it proclaims on the back of the record, this is "sloppy aggro garage shit", and it’s impossible to argue with that. 

The songs though, are mag-fucking-nificent! If you can get with the no-fi, these are catchy-as-hell garage punk smashers with rockin’ 3 note guitar solos and an overload of nasty attitude.  This is for the realer dealers who get off on the unadorned, KBD primal budget rock of The Mummies, The Dogs, The Mad or more recently The ReatardsS, Illegal Leather, The Cavemen and Kool and the Gangbangers. GET IT HERE.
 
Cheers 
NFT Contingent