DEATH PARTY - Haunted [IMPORT Blue Vinyl] – New 10"

Texas does it again, the band charging at the songs with a mix of fuzz and clarity, careless focus, intention and effortless, welcoming and exorcising, blowing the sawdust from the work bench, tension that pulls you in and chucks you out, the songs with something that almost sounds like restraint to increase the tension, sounds like trying to kick a scorpion loose from your pant leg, filthy pop songs chucked into a 55 gallon drum and shaken around in the soiled oil at the bottom, garage punk sopping up puddles from the Dirtnap catalog and the 1990s, the rhythm section sinking their claws into it, the drumming nailing the songs to your skull, a linked-armed tightness that maybe can only come from a trio, one thing on their mind, but each clearly with a mind of their own, songs likely coming from the end of relationships with titles like Useless, Dead To Me, Don't Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, You Let me Down, maybe influences from across the southern half of the United States, people/places like Personality Cult/North Carolina, Reatard/Tennessee, Marked Men/Texas, Destruction Unit/Arizona, Gun Club/ Los Angeles.  Check it out.  It's great. -- winch

 

"Debut 10" from DEATH PARTY from Austin, TX three-piece. Texas Garage Punk.  Haunted is the top pick in the bats & ghosts league for honeymoon killers, unidentified newlyweds and black leather beach hawkers only.  Time is running on 45rpm. One-time press of 289 copies antoxic aqua-blue vinyl."