“Cruise Control is a delightful blend of country and pop, of rock and shoegaze—and a real kick in the teeth. Each band member is an entertaining performer, the group’s chemistry is charming, and their lyrics? Refreshing.
What’s sweeter still are the harmonies between the band’s two guitarists: Portland-born Lee Butterfield and Izzy Dupuis from Connecticut, the band’s main songwriters. Butterfield and Dupuis first formed the band during the pandemic, when their punk bands All Hits and Trash, respectively, could no longer play in public and soon dismembered.” –wweek.com
“Australia’s Lothario storms forth as an unrelenting rebellion, a sonic revolt against the banal, born from Melbourne’s restless nights and the razor-sharp vision of Annaliese Redlich. This post-punk powerhouse tears through the mundane with raw, reckless anthems that howl for the bored, the brazen, and the broken.
Conceived in a November haze of 2022, Lothario channels the fevered pulse of late-night hedonism, grappling with themes of lust, betrayal, and liberation. Redlich’s songs bleed catharsis—drunk on discontent and bruised by betrayals, they lash out with fiery intent.
From the confines of her living room, where every instrument but the drums found its voice, Redlich conjures a sound bristling with immediacy. Love letters to outcasts and odes to chaos ripple with unfiltered intensity, daring listeners to rage against regret and dance through despair. Her music doesn’t whisper—it screams, an unapologetic roar against self-doubt and silence. Lothario harks back to the ferocity of the Dead Kennedys, BiTyrant and Bikini Kill, the sneering wit of X-Ray Spex, and the venomous screeching swagger of Lydia Lunch. It’s a soundtrack for the restless—a visceral anthem for those ready to confront their demons, embrace their flaws, and revel in the beautiful mess of rebellion until the sun creeps over the horizon.” –post-punk.com
Named in reference to the deadly weight-loss drug, FEN FEN is what happens when pent-up musicians form a band in a dystopian, pandemic-riddled world and ask an ICU nurse to "scream into this microphone". Their songs fluctuate from frantic and wild to menacing and fuzz-drenched. Detroit’s FEN FEN strives to once again immortalize the band’s raw punk frenzy onto wax. Recorded by bassist Ben Taber in the band’s eastside Detroit basement, tracks range in style from gnarled proto-punk to squealing breakneck rock n roll. Think of your favorite KILLED BY DEATH tracks meeting the needle of a sewing machine dead-set on driving straight through your eardrums. Fast and foreboding songs give way to absurdist themes that will be sure to rile up any wasteoid with a short attention span. Listen loud, quit your job, bite your dog.
Mod Lang finally has a song officially on the internet, check the link–and look carefully, it’s a comp. Come hear more songs from the supergroup comprised of members of Shadow Show, Sugar Tradition, Secondary Colors and Fen Fen.
