Holy hell: 2025's first great punk rock album is a ripper! Ghoulies hail from Perth and kick up a tremendous racket on their new long player Shafted By The Algorithm. These 12 tracks will batter you senseless in a way that's positively thrilling. Style-wise, this is fast and frenzied garage punk with demented synthesizers. Alec Thomas and Charles Wickham takes turns writing and singing these songs, which blaze by at 100 miles per hour and smash everything in their path. It's hard to even put a label on this record. Is this egg punk on amphetamines? Is this hardcore with synths? All I know is that the intensity, unrelenting weirdness, and pure fury of this record are off the charts from wire to wire. And these songs aren't just wild and crazy —they're genuinely good. Out of 12 tracks, only one of them needs to go past two minutes. If a few of these songs had gone any longer, someone might have gotten hurt. What a brilliant album! Vinyl will be out on the German label Erste Theke Tontraeger in March.
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