WE’RE LOUD: 90s Cassette Punk Unknowns.
Various Artists
Slovenly Recordings/Black Gladiator 2015
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Every era of music has some grossly neglected and under appreciated artists. Bands who never rose past their hometowns scene or the tri-state area. This collection of 33 songs seeks to help document the vast and sprawling underground punk landscape.
Les Fleur De Mal from Las Vegas offer up some fun and flighty keyboard driven garage-ish rock.
Pink Fingers, Barf Bags, Crawlers, and Mega and the Nyrds all get their moment in the sun, finally.
And it truly wouldn’t be punk if there wasn’t some genuinely pissed off act performing in kind and Heck Yeahs fit the bill here with three songs, including “I Always Hated You.”
People’s Court have the instant classic, “We’re Gonna Die,” which is insanely catchy and perfectly dry. If your tastes ever flirted with the underground or currently still do, this lo-fi collection of noisy numbers is what you need.
