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I am about to take you into an old yet completely new world, a world made of post-modern outsiders and '70s punks unaware of being part of a globalized scene. When? In the second decade of the 21st century.
Devo-core.
I have already skimmed this river but never plunged into it, never touched the surface of the water with a finger. Devo-core must necessarily bring to mind the band it stems from, the Ohio band that mechanized garage, stripped punk to the bone, and, thanks to extravagant games and kraut-style synths, revolutionized the idea of zolo in the following decade. But D-Core, that is, as specified on Rym, "…all those strange sounds that do not fall into the genres: Hardcore, Garage Punk, and New Wave", is something that goes well beyond the label of Devo followers.
Thus over the years, we can cite The Deadbeats, Dow Jones and the Industrials, The Gizmos, The Urinals, Suburban Lawns, etc. etc. all important influences for Mark Winter.
Mark Winter is a freaking genius, besides being the person behind The Coneheads, C.C.T.V., D.L.I.M.C. and the longest-standing project Liquids (which presents Mat Williams as the leader), he has given a lively boost to the emergence of the movement. Erik Nervous is another great figure of the garage scene: both by the golden rule and perpetually churn out constantly vivid raw pearls of catchy melodies.
Nervous Sessions is a magnificent compilation of tracks taken here and there from the Liquids discography, tracks recorded with the collaboration, and probably recorded in the studio, of Erik (a full-fledged producer) where all instruments are played by Mat. The songs are cleansed from the extremely lo-fi patina and become acidic splinters of visceral animosity, among which emerge the cover of Meat Loaf's Bat Outta Hell, the pop impurity of Goin' Down The Tubes, the anthem of Head Meat, the big ballad Trying and the steaming hardcore of Some Mistakes and Prison Food (almost) attributable with the post suffix.
here the nice little disc: https://liquids1.bandcamp.com/album/nervous-sessions
here all the slime: https://liquids1.bandcamp.com/music
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