PUFFER - S/T EP
Montreal has a legendarily wet, cold and irritating winter, which people sometimes cite as the reason this city has such a wild scene come summer. People spend 5 months in shotgun apartments and cramped jamspaces, then emerge with some extremely fresh shit. When PUFFER came out of the even longer sequester of the COVID lockdowns, it felt like a tri-plex exploding.
Comprised of core members from the already canonical ULTRARAT and the massively underrated F.I.T.S., PUFFER comes through with a sound as punk as a torn GBH shirt and as rock'n'roll as blue jeans, with shows that have stayed just as exciting as when I first saw them in an abandoned railyard. Quick flourishes like the backing vocals and speeding-truck guitar runs improve the rocksolid song structures, my favourite track would be the bouncy streetrocker "Sister Marie", but hey, it's a 4 song EP, they're all good.
FFO: SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS, GIRLSCHOOL, bands that are specifically described as 'punk rock'
Available on RoachLeg Records, NYC
Listen here: https://roachlegrecords.bandcamp.com/album/puffer-s-t-ep
Related, ULTRARAT: https://ultrarat.bandcamp.com/ F.I.T.S.: https://thisisthewrongway.bandcamp.com/
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