feeling of love - la peur est une illusion

france's FEELING OF LOVE are a difficult band to pin down.....calling it deconstructed garage punk might be the closest you'll get to a genre, seeing that the owe huge debts to the noisy antics of pussy galore, the swampy post blues of the chrome cranks and scientists and a huge love for the crypt / sympathy records back catalog....though all that being said, there's something uniquely art bent, glue wave and french going on with FEELING OF LOVE's post modern cave stomp...... you can imagine them huddled around a bottle of whiskey next to some broken synths with like minded cohorts CHEVEU, JC SATAN, THE ANALS, LE CHOMAGE, SONIC CHICKEN 4 and AH KRAKEN......(btw, all super riotous french bands you need to check out)......

....i'm not sure what's going on in the dive clubs across the sea, but fuck if these french kids aren't warping american garage / punk in the most interesting and subversive ways......

following superb lps on KILL SHAMAN and BORN BAD, as well as a split single with TY SEGALL on PERMANENT, FEELING OF LOVE is back with another full platter of blown out spastic garage burning punk jams, this time via CAPTCHA RECORDS......the new album entitled LE PEUR EST UNE ILLUSION is a collection of their early singles from 2006-2008, when the band was morphing from a one man bedroom pyrotechnics show into a full on hellbent punk riot......  though not a best of, LE PEUR EST UNE ILLUSION acts as a good starting point for those not initiated into the dark feedback obsessed world of FEELING OF LOVE........

and like most comps of this nature, it would be cost prohibitive and time consuming to track all these singles down, since their 7 inches on SWEET ROT, FLORIDA'S DYING, SQUOODGE, AVANT and others were super limited and long gone.......  and CAPTCHA lovingly added to the album are a few unreleased tracks as icing to the cake for those who might have a few of those 7 inches....

FEELING OF LOVE might be overlooked by many non-europeans since there's quite a garage explosion happening here, but hopefully with this new album CAPTCHA can change that.......

this is a repeat and mind bending listen......
very recommended.
grab your copy here......

and LISTEN TO LE PEUR EST ILLUSION below......



watch 'em live below......

charles albright - the first four years tape

If it takes a cassette to gather all the psych pummeling madness of CHARLES ALBRIGHT into one place, so be it. The First Four Years would be recommended even if it came out on just 8 track. Charles Albright's under the radar garage punk noise making has gone very under appreciated by many, but maybe this collection of way out of print singles can change that. Here's the scoop from Sacramento Records:

"CHARLES ALBRIGHT has been a fixture in Sacramento's underground punk scene for over a decade. Chances are the only band of Charles' that you've heard is THE PIZZAS, but he has been in a ton of them (all of them awesome and so under the radar.) This cassette features his various singles released on labels like S.S., Permanent and Goodbye Boozy. No bullshit psych punk that still lurks in the garage and has great over-blown guitar that sounds like young Charles has soaked up plenty Leigh Stephens and Greg Ginn, which he has."

Yes and add to that crazed drive of those old Rip Offs records, the feedback buzz of the Wipers and a heavy overdose of anything psychedelic, and what you get is someone who ought to be selling records as fast as The Oh Sees and Ty Segall combined. 

Like shotgunning a six pack of cheap beer and lighting a pile of Maximum Rock n Rolls on fire to burn yr ex-girlfriends house down.  You have some fun reckless nights ahead of you with The First Four Years tape........ 

heavily suggested for those of you who love TYVEK, JAY REATARD, THE OBLIVIANS, SUPERCHARGER and the like.........

Very Recommended for Your and Your Favorite Tape Deck!!!

STREAM THE ENTIRETY OF THE FIRST FOUR YEARS BELOW......
   and grab it now before it's gone....... (and it prolly will be in a sec.....)

CHARLES ALBRIGHT is the master of feedback punk........
any piece of blown out rock n roll by him, i suggest you grab immediately.......



 watch CHARLES ALBRIGHT slaying Sacramento below........