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New songs from this St. Louis punk group released for their October 2019 tour.
Our take: St. Louis’s Fried E/M released this four track tape in a very limited quantity for their recent southeastern US tour. These tracks are preliminary recordings for an LP that may see the light of day sooner or later on some label or another. I hope it does, because I’m digging this tape. The lineup features Lumpy (on drums) and at least one former Dumper, but Fried E/M has a more straightforward sound, a rough and street-level take on classic punk. The riffs are pure rock-and-roll, but the recording and presentation are super gritty and the vocals are mean but charismatic and clearly enunciated. They remind me of early Kraut or DOA’s best songs in the way they take a Pistols and Damned approach and drag it through the mud. This is worth some listens while we wait for the LP to drop.