Art for Spastics v. 162: Re-Introducing the Damaged Pop Wave

You could say that for the last couple of years, a new era of "damaged pop" has begun to come back in the underground. With interest in the British DIY "Messthetic," kiwi pop of Flying Nun, and the history of rural American protopunk and weirdpunk through the ages, it's no wonder more people are finding their way to new bands like Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit. Much of what's played on this AFS is what you might call "damaged pop."

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(archived for 10 weeks)

I REFUSE IT! // Choch Numret // v/a: We Can Do Whatever We Want // BCT Tapes 1986
GRABBA GRABBA TAPE // Domo Arigato, Margarita! // split 12" w/ Margarita // Holy Cobra Society *new
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY // New Neighborhood // She's Got Legs // Deathbomb Arc *new
MODERN CREATURES // Divorce Yrself // Divorce Yrself CDR // self-released 2007
DOXA SINISTRA // Kuomintang's Space Ballad // v/a: Trumpett Days // Enfant Terrible *new (orig 1981-1983)
CHEVEU // Truck // v/a: Hoera! Een Hex Voor Thuis // Hex Grammofoonplaten 2007
NECROPOLIS // Song for a Working Man // Working Man 7" // Columbus Discount *new
GUINEA WORMS // Box of Records // Box of Records 7" // Columbus Discount *new
MANTLES // Trouble in the Streets // Burden // Dulc-I-Tone *new
SIC ALPS // Message from the Law // Description of the Harbor // Awesome Vistas *new
EAT SKULL // Dead Families // 2nd 7" // Skulltones *forthcoming
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT // These Days // Magic Flowers Droned // Siltbreeze 2007
BEWARE OF THE KNIGHT // Space Sores // Third Canker From the Rock // self-released 2007
BEWARE OF THE KNIGHT // I Wrote on Your Crack
J.P. HERRMANN // Dead Water Dead Light // demo CDR // no label *new
J.P. HERRMANN // Labyrinthitis
TALL DWARFS // The Brain that Wouldn't Die // Hello Cruel World // Flying Nun 1990 (orig 1984)
TALL DWARFS // Crush!
SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER // Rocker's Escape // self-titled // KDVS Recordings 2007
WINGTIP SLOAT // Waxing Neurotic // Add this to Rhetoric // VHF *new
SERPENTS OF WISDOM // My Dead Cat // split 7" w/ Tickley Feather // Badmaster *new
ROBERT WYATT // Alife // Rock Bottom // Virgin 1974
ROBERT WYATT // Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road
PAUL REEKIE // Lovers // v/a: Messthetics #105 // Hyped2Death *new
JANET & JOHNS // I Was a Young Man // v/a: Messthetics #104 // Hyped2Death *new
EGGS // Sexual Tension // Sexual Tension 7" // Jade Tree 1993 *request
HENRY'S DRESS // Tree Fort // Bust 'em Green // Slumberland 1995
SKI INSTRUCTORS // Kids on the Street // Kids on the Street 7" // Dulc-I-Tone 2007
SO COW // Five Months, Out in the Wilderness // These Truly Are End Times // Covert Bear *new
SEXUAL MILKSHAKE // Bus to B.C. // Space Gnome 7" // Teen Beat 1991
THE WEEKS // On All is All and // Clipping Wood Paste Adhesive CDR // Big Drum 2005
TOMMY JAY // Lust Honor & Love // Tommy Jay's Tall Tales of Trauma // Columbus Discount *new