punk this week: pleasure cube, gimic, osees, slippers, edging + 15 more
A week featuring new stuff from the Circulators, Prisão, K9, Liquid Cross, Blood Cannery, a new Minneapolis punk supergroup, and more.
Hey, it’s Punk This Week, see/saw’s weekend round-up of the best punk and rock'n'roll records. Pleasure Cube, Gimic, Osees, Slippers, Edging, the Circulators, Prisão, K9, Liquid Cross, and Blood Cannery all dropped new stuff this week. Read about those and a staggering 10 additional sick punk records. There’s a bunch of links at the bottom of the column, too, if you’re just an insatiable sicko who also needs to hear Crushed Balls.
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Pleasure Cube: Big Doses [self-released]
The first new record in two years from the Minneapolis trio of Amanda, Elgin, and Wade is a gorgeous glob of grunge-flavored melodic no wave. This is a summer record that oozes with the discomfort of desire, intimate connection, and a failure to communicate. These stifled feelings are captured perfectly by Elgin and Amanda’s trade-off vocals; they’re two narrators approaching the same moment from different perspectives.
That dynamic is why Pleasure Cube’s live show is such a treat. It’s two people shouting into mics—each with their own melodies heading in their own directions—while Wade’s drumming becomes the primary bonding agent. It’s a cacophonous record captured in a beloved Minneapolis punk house, and it sounds like the absolute best version of a Minneapolis basement show. A perfect document of what makes this such a crucial band.
