Leather Towel

Leather Towel

Towel IV

Hozac

***The debut album from Melbourne's LEATHER TOWEL—twelve songs of white-hot punk scorch that plays out in eighteen minutes. Songs about the cinema, love, fast food and Yoko’s righteous takedown. The most outrageously (fake) punk band any of these jokers have played in and the most bonkers record you will hear all year. At first blast, the AUSMUTEANTS instantly come to mind before anything else, and of course, that's due to that very same band's JAKE "THE LOVER" ROBERTSON's brash and unhinged vocals and guitar interchange splattering his guts across the room. But this project has far more nuance and panache, as noted by the inclusion of cohorts from NUN, EXHAUSION and OOGA BOOGAS will attest, an attempted swipe at the hardcore template, yet thrown off-balance due to the amount of truck stop cheese whiz and vertigo oozing out of these unhinged scatterbombs as they screech across both sides of this frantic debut LP. It's an evolved hardcore record for the non-mysterious guy, and the post-punk side trips don't hurt the effort one bit, further channeling the Gordons-esque downstrokes and brackish, ugly rhythms which lead to an ultimate climax of irreversible malaise. Edition of 400 copies on black vinyl.