punk this week: cicada, rifle, rotary club + 8 more
The return of Tokyo’s Abe and the Shits, Perth shows its multitudes with Pleasants and GAOLED, and more
Welcome to Punk This Week, see/saw’s weekly column exploring the latest and greatest punk and rock’n’roll records. This time there’s some feral hardcore from Cicada and GAOLED, the latest from London’s Rifle, Reno’s Rotary Club making wonderful punk music about the joys of the landline, and so much more. It’s a great week, which you know is true because there’s finally a new Abe and the Shits demo.
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Cicada: True Self Destruction [Sex Fiend Abomination Tapes and Discs]
Just a couple months back, Richmond hardcore band Cicada released a crucial 7” on Unlawful Assembly called Wicked Dream. This week, they’re back with a new four-song offering called True Self Destruction. It’s three songs streaming; for the CCM cover, you’ve got to buy the physical copy. The playing is expertly frantic, the vocals are guttural. It’s music that sounds like a long descent down the chute to hell, a constant rattling with a demon waiting somewhere at the bottom. That’s what life on planet Earth feels like right now. Therefore, this band receives the highest possible endorsement. (see/saw’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.)
