Happy Happy Birthday to Me records main man Mike Turner compiled Plague-list, an album filled with "tracks that go with the current times of being stuck at home during quarantine due to COVID-19". It is a mix of garage rock, punk, hip-hop, indie and New Wave, featuring well known acts like The Wedding Present and Magnapop, besides underground favourites like Rat Fancy and Tunabunny, the latter with a track from PCP Presents Alice In Wonderland Jr. - HCTF's album of the year in 2017.
London grunge punk band Skinny Girl Diet are now a duo, but that hasn't slowed down Delilah Holiday (guitar, vocals) and Ursula Holiday (drums, vocals). Their second full-length is filled with plenty of righteous anger, energy and hooks. The title track is prime example of the good-old quiet-loud-quiet approach that was all the rage in the early Nineties. The Holidays take shit from nobody, have a sharp eye for veiled sexism, champion outsiders, strike out at the celebrity fans (Starfucker) and zoom in on Clickbait.
Ideal Woman is a pamphlet, a wake up call by means of heartfelt music. They are dead serious, but they have wrapped their message in rollicking tunes. Crank it loud and repeatedly.
Distortion, fuzz and feedback are the key elements for London grunge punk trio Skinny Girl Diet. Their new album is a kick in the balls of the music industry honchos, who steered to safer waters once loud music went out of style again. The three women are out of tune with the times, but are the perfect antidote for boring grunt work, school and life in general. These 21st century riot grrrls prefer boredom and the quick rush of DMT to fawning over some bloke.
