Straining To Read Your Mind Over All The Blood...

Here's another 7" from the not too distant past. Massachusetts noise punkers Psychic Blood pumped out this dissonant, vitriolic 7" and it's a corker. Strain is two songs that disappear down a corrugated iron tunnel filled with miscreants and crushed syringes. Both the title track and 'Drudgefest' lay it down like an eczema rash, so bad for you but you can't help but frantically itch. Think Wipers with a rabid fascination for serrated glass. Dirty, tetanus stuff. I wish I could say more - and I probably could - but my gums are bleeding from gnashing my teeth. Psychic Blood have an album on the way called Autumn Curses. Can. Not. Wait.

Psychic Blood - Strain

Staying Faithful To M. Women

M. Women is a three-piece out of the grunge Ground Zero, Seattle, putting out their new LP Faithful (through label Couple Skate Records). It is a suitably grungey listen, and whilst they list Grass Widow and Broken Water as their contemporaries, the album evokes Evol-era Sonic Youth and the Wipers. They have played alongside the likes of Brilliant Colors, Broken Water, Abe Vigoda, Wild Nothing & Gun Outfit, and on the strength of Faithful it may not be long before they are being propped up by the same...

M. Women - Tense Hands Talk
M. Women - Dark Space
M. Women - In Meadows

And listen to the full album below: