Ladies Night/No Feeling - Split - 7"

Split 7” from incestuous Vancouver garage trash bands: Ladies Night and No Feeling.
The Ladies Night A side features “Nazi Tomb” which is a scary rumbler that smashes deep in the zombie bones. Garage rock goodness at its absolute worst.
On the B side we have Ladies Night frontman Levon’s new three piece project No Feeling, featuring Vancougar’s Becca and Meghan. “Don’t Tell Me What to Do” and “Holes” are their servings up for consumption.
No Money? No Friends? No Feeling? No Problem.

Ladyfuzz - Hold Up - 7"

A great track from their first and last album, Hold Up sounds like the Slits meets the Pretenders.

Ladyfuzz - Oh Marie - 7"

First out of the blocks from hip-yet-actually-cool new record label Transgressive (non-linear rock torch bearer post-Trash Aesthetics [which is still around - Tailors single to come]) is this winding, infectious, bass and drums monster.

Inevitable comparisions from the ill informed of stylistically focused will nod towards Bloc Party and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but a comparision to female-fronted music for the sake of it, and singling out one edgy post-pop band in a whole brew is disingenious.

What it actually sounds like is a Doors track stripped down to its barest non-guitar, non-organ bones, with extra yelping. It's as sparse as the band's own name implies, yet it's a musical mind worm that bores through your skull and imprints its virtuous melodic rigidity into your membrane.

Like the parent label, 'Oh Marie' is very NOW, but also GOOD. How does that correlate? Well, as volcalist Liz intones, "the latest fashion/ a crime of passion". What does it mean? We don't know. Is it good? Yes, it really is...

from Drowned in Sound

Le Club des Chats- Yes Madame! 7 - 7"

Raise Afred Jarry from the dead in order to front a band and I’ll talk Le Club des Chats into backing him up. Why? Because no one makes absurdist romp like this Parisian trio. If you got their mad debut 7”, you know what I mean. If you dug their tune on Tete de Bebe, then you got a taste. Here is another dose. Seven great, compact songs, nothing like anything S-S has put out before, but fitting sniggly in this eclectic mix of bands we’ve got going here. Want to twist your brain around something while you shake your head in joyous amazement?

Le Volume Courbe - Freight Train - 7"

Le Volume Courbe's debut LP had an impressive list of contributors attached to it: My Bloody Valentine's Colm O'Ciosoig and Kevin Shields, Hope Sandoval and Keith Tenniswood to name only a few. Shields has a mixing credit on the A-side here, 'Freight Train', but there's little evidence of his hallmark wall of noise, instead the track drifts hazily along atop a breeze of harmonica and banjo while Charlotte Marionneau intones her breathy vocals. It's all very charming, though sadly B-side 'The House' takes on an entirely different sound, with some electronic doodling and only a snippet or two of vocals to speak of. That a-side though, lovely stuff.
from boomkat

Los Llamarada - The Very next Moment - 7"

Little by little Los Llamarada is gonna take over the world. First they will shoot you with the neo-psychedelic stun gun of The Very Next Moment and then you'll be shivved by their version of Brenda Lee's I'm Sorry. There's magic in this band of Mexican youngsters. In Rick Ele's words, "a churning neg-viber…and… awonderfully weird (and) bittersweet." Or from the band "A futurist (that is, costumbrist) narrative of high - tech / rural noise middle class splendor. And a sonambulist cover of a classic Brenda Lee song, guitars blinded by the hot Monterrey sun and Estrella's cut-up vocals." A very worthy follow up to their much raved about debut! 600 pressed. Hand stamped sleeve.

Lost Sounds - Motorcycle Leather Boy - 7"

The last of the 2005 recordings. Here Lost Sounds burn through two Oblivians covers. Pretty much a quick, full-on/trashed-out guitar barrage with some nasty overdriven analog synth basslines. Highly recommended for awesome people who like awesome music. No joke bitch! Eat it!