TICKETS AT THE DOOR
Memphis trio Ibex Clone features members of Ex Cult, Nots and Hash Redactor, and make the sort of jangly, big-hearted, post-punk-inspired music that used to be a staple on college radio in the mid-'80s, recalling everything from R.E.M. to Bob Mould's first two solo albums to The Sound. - BROOKLYN VEGAN
Patois Counselors, out of North Carolina, makes a dystopian funked up punk, its songs rattling and pounding in off-kilter ways, like a boxer hitting hard as he falls sideways onto the mat. Their Proper Release, from 2018, was a non-stop banger in its own ominous, slantwise way. “There’s something compelling about the tension between the marching, strutting rhythms and the sideways slippage of the chant and instruments. Patois Counselor gives structure to entropy, makes sense of guitar-bass-drum-key chaos,” said I, in my review of a record that made my top ten for the year and the decade.
The Sews- Secretly great sloppy Garage/Fuzz from Kingston.