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Banks Paul: Gimme Danger / Sister Midnight [Vinyl 7"]

Geese return with their 3rd album, Getting Killed. They tracked the album with Kenneth Blume in 10 fast-paced days. With scant time for overdubbing, what emerged is a chaotic comedy, shambolic in structure but passionately performed, informed by an exacting vision. Big riffs are layered on choir samples; hissing drum machines pulse softly behind screeching guitars. They balance a disarming tenderness with an intensified anger, trading their love of classic rock for a disdain for music itself.

Off the back of 2022’s critically acclaimed Heart Under, Dundalk, Ireland's 5-piece Just Mustard now return with “POLLYANNA,” the luminous and lurching first tease of their anticipated third album (more on that coming soon). A thrilling collision of warped guitars, submerged beats, and front woman Katie Ball’s dreamlike vocals pushed higher in the mix than ever before, the track captures the band at a turning point - reaching for euphoria while wrestling with its emotional cost. Anchored by the group’s signature sonic disorientation but newly embracing directness and melody, “POLLYANNA” sets the tone for a new era of Just Mustard, one that finds beauty in contradiction, pairing the raw power of noise-rock with a conflicted optimism that’s as disarming as it is cathartic.

Westerman: A Jackal's Wedding [CD]