punk this week: monda, dog bus, poo poo talks + 7 more

Welcome to Punk This Week, see/saw’s weekly column exploring the latest and greatest punk and rock’n’roll records. We’re doing a deep dig this week into DIY demos, hardcore madness, basement jams, and an Italian band called Poo Poo Talks. 

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Monda: Ponderous Leviathan [self-released]

This is the fourth Monda album that’s been released this year. It’s grim but propulsive basement punk out of New Jersey, and the title track helps give an inkling of the aesthetic: a churning and noisy seven-minute jam. There is indeed something both ponderous and massive about that song and this record. Monda has this ability to give the entire record a sprawl, where even the shorter songs bleed into each other as a kind of cohesive suite. There’s another good indicative track, “Kill Anything That Moves,” that opens at a trudge and picks up steam until it’s a total road warrior ripper. It’s punk for the patient—a rewarding listen the longer you sit with it.