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.
Like-minded lo-fi garage bands Eureka California and Witching Waves will be on tour in the UK. Hooks and riffs galore.
Live dates:* (Eureka California only)
Watch the new Witching Waves video for Twister, a track from their Crystal Cafe album. The clip was directed by Gary McQuiggin. The DIY garage rock trio is on tour in the UK in July and August. More shows TBA.
UK live dates:HCTF review of Crystal Cafe.
Ready for some angry, catchy DIY rock? London based trio Witching Waves go for howling feedback, tons of fuzz and leakage, topped off with wavering vocals on their second full-length Crystal Cafe. Emma Wigham, Mark Jasper and Ed Shellar have found a way to get even with the world by not so much as playing but attacking their instruments. This a band that won't back down - when they stumble upon a riff they keep it going for the whole song. Think post-punk with hints of the Pixies, Deerhoof and the Replacements.
Crystal Cafe is the perfect soundtrack for a trip through the back alleys and decaying of the Greater London area where people are trying to cope with a corporate world that doesn't give a fuck about their plight.
Recorded at Mark Jaspers Sound Savers studio Witching Waves have unleashed an album that should be played honoring Ritchie Blackmore's quip about wanting to have "ëverything louder than everything else". A rough diamond that never should be cut an polished.
