Carp, The

Carp, The

Tangled Up With the Two Tailed Rat

Total Punk

***Our favorite fishy boot boys, THE CARP, are back with their sophomore LP. Born out of a PERVERTS AGAIN practice that ALEX WARD didn't show up for and a mutual love of street punk and Oi!, THE CARP mashes the two through the skewed lens of the 'Kids Who Brought You CRUELSTER. 11 pissed off rants about the drones flying over our heads, the data centers in our backyards, the unaffordability of living, and the billionaires who make it all possible. The Carp are here to give you your marching orders, so lace up your docs, head to your nearest lake, and join the local chapter of the fish militia! 'Tangled Up With The Two Tailed Rat' is sardonic, anthemic, and 100% TOTAL PUNK!!!!

Carp, The

Knock Your Block Off

Total Punk

***"Dead-eyed punks The Carp cast gnarly hooks with their debut LP Knock Your Block Off. This Cleveland based 3-piece, consisting of members of Cruelster, Knowso, and a laundry list of other fast and fried bands, strip away the extraneous minutia- distilling the music into a raw, visceral, no-frills mutant street punk offering. This record says something about the duality of man- harnessing blunt, goonish, and freaky 77 punk aesthetics and combining them with the densely cerebral, albeit, thuggish and strange lyrical prose. While that may sound psychotic, Knock your Block Off offers wholly unique and infectious arrangements begging the listeners to mindlessly stomp along, ricocheting into each other like particles in the pit of a hydrogen bomb. The Carp sound like RFK Jr’s brainworm smoking crack with Hunter Biden diving 2000 miles per hour into the uncertain, and frightening, yet breathtaking, near future."—Sims Hardin Skewed, brutish, and 100% TOTAL PUNK!