Neutrals are a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area, channeling a wide range of '70s and '80s punk, post-punk, and indie-pop influences. Their debut album "Kebab Disco" came out in 2019 on Emotional Response Records and garnered universal acclaim as "an excellent collection of terse melodies, unique storytelling, and scraping pop. (AllMusic)". The band followed-up with an excellent five song EP earlier this year on Domestic Departure.

"Personal Computing" b/w "In The Future" is their new single and has the distinction of being the final entry in our SLR30 Singles Series. Both sides were recorded just before the COVID-19 lockdown began and share a bittersweet nostalgia for an imagined rose-tinted future that never was. The mood of thwarted utopian dreams feels all too appropriate right now and the tense, angular songs on this single are an ideal soundtrack for this unsettled moment.

Personal Computing

Neutrals - In The Future

Neutrals - Personal Computing

Expanding on earlier influences of wide-open, exploratory post-punk accentuated at times with math, noise and post-hardcore embellishments, “Leo” employs the tenets of the mid-90s emo movement with its wistful, melodic interludes that allude to the work of Sunny Day Real Estate at times.

Taken from their forthcoming EP, "EP II", out through MUZAI Records from August 28th 2020.

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EP 2

Dusker - Leo

New single from Black Mekon, taken from the new album The Lumpiness of Demand out October 2, 2020 via PNKSLM Recordings. Pre-order at https://www.PNKSLM.com/store

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The Lumpiness of Demand

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Black Mekon - "Sick and Low"

Lespectre - Such A Simple Thing

The lead single from the forthcoming debut LP, 'A Stray, A Dream, Forgiveness'.

Fans of the sleepy splendour of bands such as Cigarettes After Sex, Mazzy Star, Lanterns On The Lake, Phosphorescent and the singer Phoebe Bridgers will find much to love on A Stray, A Dream, Forgiveness. The coruscating, sun-dappled Thirty Fathoms Deep finds the band evoking the vast guitar sound of The War On Drugs, diving deep down into Lake Zarathustra with Tom “Out in the deep, finding solace in the eye of a stranger”.

Impossible has become an irresistible ear-worm at the band’s Bristol shows, a tale of a doomed relationship told through Max’s enduring love of the philosopher Michel Foucault, whose tattoo adorns his snare arm. If On A Winter’s Night, A Traveller Comes, nods to the postmodern novel of the same name by Italian author Italo Calvino. Elsewhere, the sad majesty of Such A Simple Thing, Obliquely Serenely and the title track hint at grander orchestral ambitions.

“Fleetingly it’s here with me/ Clear as day from the night,” sings Tom on Sleep, While I. Yet with Lespectre things are rarely that concrete, the ephemeral shimmering tantalisingly into focus before evaporating just as quickly, instruments and vocal harmonies melting into each other mirage-like.

Moments such as this ebb and flow with rare beauty throughout A Stray, A Dream, Forgiveness.

Such A Simple Thing (single version)

Taken from the debut album ‘A Life Extinct’ Recorded at Kluster Rooms, Limehouse, East London. Produced by Rory Attwell.

A Life Extinct is available on 12” Silver Vinyl from crosswires.bandcamp.com

Replicas

So What

"For Daze" by Faux Machismo.

Stand alone single released digitally through MUZAI Records on October 30th 2020.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Mulligan.

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Faux Machismo - For Daze

Workout is a tribute to all of the 80s and 90s home workout videos that have been lost to time.

Written and performed by Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt
Mixed and mastered by Mikey Young
Recorded by Kurt Eckardt

Workout

Written, recorded and mixed by Beige Banquet.
Mastered by Mikey Young.
Artwork by Robin Roche.

Beta

Wired/Weird

Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt. We’re a feminist brat-wave punk band from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Second album Power out now on 12" and streaming etc, You can get our first one Dead Beats digitally everywhere (tape and vinyl is sold out soz). Split 7" with Piss Factory and split 7" with Shrimpwitch and split 7" with Zig Zag and Workout / Dead As Disco 7" all out now via psychichysteria.com.

Workout

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