Marky Mark, He Thinks He's So Bad

More noisy garage punk amazingness, this time from Australian's own The UV Race.  We're talking a COMPLETE mess here, as in glorious.  Atonal, shuddering squalls of bratty, sneering pop disgust.  Huggy Bear on quaaludes.  Art rock that sounds like it's being made with (or by) Actual Rocks.  This is pop music that makes a point of Not Giving A Fuck about pop music... or Punk Rock so giddy and youthful it simply cannot manage to look/act cool for even a second (except for smirking dude on the right side of the photo, but, y'know... guitar players.  What can you do?).

Still not sold (what's WRONG with you)?  Okay, here's a fast one and a slow one off the Knife Fight EP.  "Frustration" (the slow one) does the same trick as "Boredom" by the Buzzcocks, both embodying and transcending its subject matter, albeit in a much more fuzzed-out, detuned Baby Sonic Youth way.  "I Hate You" (the fast one, duh) clatters along on pantomime contempt, until all the noise drops away at the one minute mark to reveal the sax bleats that have been subliminally giving the song its hook.  FUCK, I wish I'd thought of doing that.

Knife Fight has two more amazing songs on it, and is still probably available at yr local Punk Rock Emporium.  The real news, however, is that th' Race have just put out a full-length called Homo which is SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER than the EP.  Which you'd better believe took some goddamn doing.  Go grab it so's it can dominate any top ten lists you plan on making this year.