Popwell

2 Split single

A split between Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso UFO (that’s the full band name so we’ll let you imagine what the song sounds like), and the LA-based neurotic noise rock band Orphan Goggles is coming out sometime in May. That Orphan Goggles side, “Hey Bart, How’s Your Stool?” is frantic fun. Vocals bounce from sneer to gasp-shrieking like The Cramps, and the guitars remind us of when rad bands that loved Fugazi would be crammed into a coffee shop, playing so hard their fingers would get cut and blood would spatter all over the guitar. We’d never heard Orphan Goggles before this and have been pogo-freaking around the house scaring the hell out of the dog, digging the maniacal post-punk, which twitches on like an even more short-circuited Les Savy Fav of sorts.

-Jamison Floyd