Jowl + Red Light Acid Test + Anonions + Badaboum + The Pish Dolls

Jowl we’re not sure where this band are coming from (which is always a good thing) frantic but low in the mix drums, scraping guitar, keening impassioned vocals that sound a tad like James Dean Bradfield, not that there’s anything remotely Manics about the music- experimental out there pop (there is a pop sensibility) that has a bit of XTC maybe, in fact they remind us of Long Fin Killie. Perhaps you could compare them to Black Country New Roads, engaging effervescent tunes, top draw. Red Light Acid Test – While the heavy, angular riffs and big drums are the immediate pulls, the band does a fantastic job creating frenetic, anxious tension in both the music and lyrics that really hold you as a listener. If you like your rock dark, heavy and moody, Red Light Acid Test are up your alley for sure. Anonions – Purple Implosion’s side project and it’s fuzzed up kraut rock via spacerock, imagine Neu by way of Hawkwind . Psychedelically shonky, sure to please any microdoot munching maverick.  Badaboum – Wonderfully whacked out French pop (only with some vocals in German!) with a conceptual bent….they like a weird costume or 3…plus semi tribal synth pop flavas and post punk moodiness, all in all highly entertaining and sassy. The Pish Dolls – Crazy big puppets and a manipulated uber pop soundtrack. A Parisian conceptual artist who cottoned on to puppetry being a lot more pleasant than chopping a calf in half. It may not be rock n roll, but then again…