Flush It Friday: Minis? How About Some Itty Bitty Ditties!
5 x 100. Let’s go!
I’ve been assured that my itty bitty reviews are a big hit. I’ve heard we might even be talking licensing deals. I’m outta here, you Toilet schmucks! I’m gonna go make my mark on Hollyweird and get myself a star on the ol’ Walk of Shame!
I’d never leave you. Here’s some music and then there will be some flush.
Converge – Live in Orlando, FL 03.14.22
Self-Released | October 4, 2024
Though so many disasters follow a particular disaster, it does mean that particular disaster stopped being disastrous. Earlier this month, almighty Converge released a live set recorded on Pi Day 2022 with all proceeds going to the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief to benefit those impacted by Hurricane Helene. The set opens with “Plagues” and closes with “Concubine,” which… enough said. This was also right around the time they reduxed the Agoraphobic Nosebleed split Poacher Diaries, so you get both “This is Mine” and “Locust Reign.” Too much The Dusk in Us? Sure, but it’s not about that! It’s about donating!
Gloomlurker / Witch’s Amulet – Ballads from the Bannered Mare
Fiadh Productions | October 11, 2024 | Yellow-shelled cassette
Billed as a “fantasy dungeon synth” collaboration, Ballads from the Bannered Mare begins with Gloomlurker, to my ears, eschewing both fantasy and dungeon synth for something far closer to a sweeping, haunting, chilling dark ambient. It’s one of the eerier things I’ve heard from Fiadh. The noted mysticism and serenity of Witch’s Amulet is fully at play on their side of things, bathing the listener in a light misting of synth that feels restorative and dreamlike. I can’t get enough of that banana yellow cassette shell with the logo stamped in the middle. Everything Fiadh does is a work of art!
Yambag – Mindfuck Ultra
Convulse Records | May 10, 2024
A follow-up to 2022’s Strength in Numbers, which No Echo called one of the best hardcore albums of the year, Mindfuck Ultra is the kind of Clevo hardcore that ain’t the Clevo hardcore you’re thinkin’ about. Yambag are the fastest fastcore band out there, operating at lightspeed even when dropping into a two-step hyperstomp. You could think about World Peace, but you’d have to strip away anything that makes it grindcore or hardcore. It’s just fast… all the time. Also, for your edification, a yambag is when someone’s packin’ so much meaty heat you can see it through their jeans.
.22LR – .22LR
Tomb Tree & Mevzu Records | April 2, 2024
Skramz by way of Atlanta and Istanbul! Available digitally from the band and Tomb Tree, you can also snag a ridiculous L.A. Ram colourway swirled cassette from Zegema Beach. A thing of beauty! Twentytwolongrifle are as melodic as they are chaotic, as rooted in the late ’90s as they are right now. Frail Body might get you close, but I’m feeling nostalgic. I want something like a more emoviolence version of Crestfallen, or a less screeching Love Lost But Not Forgotten. I want all my references to be on a CD somewhere in a dust-casked CD booklet under my bed.
Alana Wilkinson – Half Time Oranges
Self-Released | September 12, 2024
And now for something completely different. This was a Bandcamp recommendation that fully landed in all its delightfully unserious seriousness. Imagine if Julien Baker or, really, any member of xBoyGeniusx, was a little less utterly melancholic and could instead sing a bright little ditty about a rogue titty. Personal favourite “With a Boob Out” is an endlessly endearing story about being hapless and socially awkward, a love song to those kind of days that can’t stop one from being the happiest they’ve ever been. I only hope that you, too, can feel the unabashedly nerdy joy of Half Time Oranges.
And that’s not all!
We Press on Mondays and we This on Tuesdays. It’s just how we do.
Rolderathis dropped an exclusive premiere of Feral Forms‘ titanic new track “Titanomachia” that I bet Eenzy still hasn’t looked at.
Brock forgot his pun gun but remembered to bring the dissonance. Ethereal Wound! Disentomb! Ploughshare!
Toilet Radio 523: Joe n Jordan watch Sinister with Dave from Earsplit and Gridfailure.
Toilet Radio 523 – Sinister (feat. Dave from Earsplit & Gridfailure)
Aaron deemed the new Fit for an Autopsy fit for a review.
A delectable course of Minis courtesy of 365 and Hans and Reliquary Tower but never Eenzy.
This premiere brought to you by Thunderkok, Sean Ghoulson, and most importantly, QUIVERING BRATWURSTS:
Exclusive Video Premiere: Thunderkok’s “Parental Erection” (NSFW)
Would you look at that? It’s a Paganizer premiere from me!
Exclusive Track Premiere: Paganizer’s “Fare Thee Well (Burn In Hell)”
Oh, shit! Oh, goodness me. That’s the week on the Toilet. What a week it was. It’s always a beautiful week here, isn’t it? Drop the GBUs in the comments. Give everyone a big ol’ smooch on the butt, if that’s what they’re into.
