Flush It Friday: They Talk The Talk
They Walk The Walk.
Cleveland’s Yambag is back again for the first time since 2024’s Mindfuck Ultra, this time with songs that are… well, still ultra-mindfuckingly fast. The Psycho is 8 songs in barely 8 minutes, featuring rapid-attack snare-smacks, crooked-ass solos (“Cult-ure”), grind-blast hyperspeed (“Nerve Damage” and “Scenicide”), and the barely-there kind of riffs you crave (“#1 Fucker”). You turkeys already missed out on the red and white swirl vinyl, but there’s black vinyl still available, as is this shirt that I don’t need. I don’t need it I don’t I need it I don’t need it I swear to god I do not.
Bakersfield must be one helluva place. Get a load of this fuzzy, jangly, hooky, vulnerable, tear-streaked, spit-speckled, guitar-driven, I-could-never-be-apathetic-because-even-when-I-don’t-care-I-care-so-much kind of pop-indie/emo from So Real. The punky singalong catchiness of “Cutaway” has me dreaming back to summers when all we listened to was Pity Sex’s Dark World. I’m probably way too old for a song like “Cage,” but, hey, “I can’t explain it / I’m out of patience / For all these thoughts still torturing me.” Maybe you’re never too old to feel “overprivileged” and like you’re “wasting opportunities.” Maybe it just keeps getting worse and worse and oh-so real!
Released in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, this second compilation from Czechian label She/Her unites 17 transfeminine projects in a time of total hell, so total hell is what it sounds like. From Fashiongore’s quivering dark ambient opener “Home is Where I Don’t Belong” through Liza Plants’s twitchy, eros-driven “Garden of Delights” and the apocalyptic mathy skramz of Four Limbs Six Hands’s “tucked out” to the club-drenched-in-blood beats of Cloggy Slutge’s “Kimchi Hotdog,” TDoV 2 has a tremendous array of styles. “Lo se. They’ve thrown it all away. They won’t get it anyways. They won’t get it anyways.”
LET’S FLUSH
Stevo awards 3.5 Flaming Toilets to Unearthly Rites for their latest efforts.
There’s a new TovH Guy on the books, but is that even the greatest sin covered by Joe ‘n Jordan on Toilet Radio 610?
Immolation seemingly can’t release bad music. The new one, which rules, gets 4.5 Flaming Toilets from Stevo.
Metal-Aged Mom is back with DEI Metal, Vol. 8. As always, the cuts are varied and choice.
Voided Grimace has a hot-off-the-presses review of the surprise-released latest album from Spirit Adrift.
There it is! A week to flush. Lots of tasty tunes. Sample ’em all if you dare. Drop your GBUs in the comments. Have a lovely weekend XOXO.
