#the anomalys

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The Anomalys — Down the Hole (Slovenly)

Once a band comes out of hibernation, there’s no telling what they’ll do. The Anomalys, a rough-cut garage band out of Amsterdam, re-emerged in 2022 after a 12-year hiatus, older perhaps but not noticeably wiser, cranking ferocious, block-simple punk rock out of the standard rock line-up.

The band draws members of King Khan’s European circle of acquaintances—Remi Pablo on furious, rapturous drums and French punk guitarist Looch Vibrato of MAGNETIX and Louder Than Death. The band leader, known as BONE, plays another guitar. There is no bass, though someone’s making heavy use of the fat strings on his guitar.

This is the sort of music best honed live, and the Anomalys have spent the last two years playing a shit-ton of shows. “Anxiety,” an early single, rolls maniacally forward like a freight train with blown brakes coming down a hill. The energy is high, but it’s funneled through a narrow channel, a repeated surf riff that juts upwards like a question, then answers itself plummeting down. The drums meanwhile go off like firecrackers on a string, stuttering a beat in between regular crackling explosions. There are no vocals on this cut, it doesn’t need them. Two and a half minute of frenzy crashes into a wall.

“Despair” is the other single, and if you’re sensing a downer theme, take heart. It gallops and hurtles and pulls up sharp in raging, head-bashing spasms, running as fast and hard as a rock song can go. The band may have been paralyzed with dread and jitters when they conceived these tracks, but you’ll receive them as a double jolt of adrenaline.

The Anomalys begs comparisons with brute force punkers like Gino and the Goons and, though they’re less goofy, Personal and the Pizzas, but though they’re not in the subtlety game, they’re not sloppy either. “Coke Head” hitches a screaming guitar riff to pounding, annihilating drums, and it’s as tight as it is on fire. You can hear it in the sudden stops, blinding bits of white space in a blitzed out barrage of noise. They’re as clean as a white-out blot, everybody pulling up at once.

I reviewed Glitch a couple of years ago, noting that, “The sound is loud and primitive, sped up like a locomotive with its back cars on fire,” and that, at least, hasn’t changed. Down the Hole is better though, tightly held together even as it careens most wildly. Glitch woke up the beast, but Down the Hole sets it free to rampage.

Jennifer Kelly

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4 Years 227 Days! Who's this rascal?

[slovenlyrecordings]

This February 24th, it’s the return of LO-LITE in Amsterdam, with MOTORMOUTH, PANTER and DJ’s Bone from Anomalys and Jasper Salvaje!

HIP! DIG!

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CONTRA2024-14

22092024 (ALL NEW)

TRACKLIST:

Jon Spencer - Wrong Dinosaur Jr. - Brooklyn The Ex - The Evidence Lambrini Girls - Company Culture Thunder Queens - Cannonball The Anomalys - Anxiety Jack White - Bombing Out clipping. - Run It Together Pangea - Lost Traum - Shoeshine Wand - The Leap Weak Signal - ILF Goat - Goatbrain (radio edit) Tramhaus - Worthwhile The Ex - Great! Die Nerven - Grosse Taten Bon Iver - S P E Y S I D E Wild Billy Childish and the North Kent Folkways Revival - This Wound'rous Day

The 14th playlist of the year!!

LISTEN: https://www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/contra2024-14-22092024-all-new/

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The Anomalys - Down The Hole LP (Slovenly Records)

When it comes to channeling the feral energy of late-sixties garage rock and blending it with the raw edge of seventies New York punk, few bands do it with as much fervor as The Anomalys. Their latest release, Down The Hole, is a blistering reminder that rock ‘n’ roll is far from dead—it’s alive, kicking, and foaming at the mouth. This album is a visceral ride through a sonic landscape that’s as…

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