Sublux, Virvon Varvon, Crooked Snout play for Young Loud & Snotty

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SUBLUX are a five-piece whose members are or have been in some other good bands – Skitter and Hellish Torment to name two – and, in this assembly, are driven by their marginalised identities and where they intersect. Singer Linsey McFadden and synth player Lula Hoffmann are both wheelchair users, and disability rights/justice is perhaps the most prominent theme in the lyrics: it’s a decidedly under-referenced one in punk (or other genres for that matter), be that from the POV of allies or those living with it.

Ultimately, though, that isn’t what makes Sublux scorch: it’s the songs what do that. More complex and multi-sectioned than your average hardcore arrangement, without threatening indulgence or finesse, there are great cloudy hockles of deathrock lobbed into anarcho/pogopunk demolition derbies, Hoffmann adding a whole extra dimension but of like mind with her bandmates (guitarist Shereen Elizabeth, bassist Adrian Alfonso and drummer Camille Fry). And McFadden, playing in her first band that I know of, is a deadly vocalist, her high register as combative as any diaphragmatic cookie monster. Hopefully out physically on the Disforia label by the time you read this, hear Disorder… however you have to."

VIRVON VARVON - Virvon Varvon are UK vets featuring members of Black Time, Wake Up Dead, Candy Highway and The Jazz June.

"...something for Crypt Records rockers and Total Punkers, post-hardcore boy/girl basement angst ALA Cupid Car Club circa 1993 live, and music from a label you can trust because Girlsville knows what's up."
TURNTABLE REPORT

"This is really pure stuff, believe me and exactly what the stuff from Memphis taught you, that it is possible to play this ominous punk rock very fucked up and extremely poppy at the same time. The best I've heard for a long time and more attention to detail is hardly imaginable despite the noisy minimalism."
SONIC THREAT

CROOKED SNOUT - punk band from Bath/Bristol