Sorry state newsletter: March 18, 2024
In this week's newsletter we have a great power-popper as our ROTW, new arrivals from Iron Lung and Feel It Records, a fresh round of staff picks, and plenty more!
New and Recommended Hardcore/punk Ragers!
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Public Acid: Deadly Struggle 12"
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- Beach Impediment Records
- Regular price
- $18.00
- Sale price
- $18.00
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Acaustix / Ready Armed System: Split 12"
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- Roach Leg Records
- Regular price
- $22.00
- Sale price
- $22.00
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Crawl Space: My God… What’ve I Done? 12"
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- Iron Lung Records
- Regular price
- $18.00
- Sale price
- $18.00
2 new pre-orders on sorry state
Valtatyhjiö: Kuristusleikki 7"
Following up their Lukko cassette from 2021, Sorry State presents the debut vinyl from Joensuu, Finland’s Valtatyhjiö. While Valtatyhjiö takes inspiration from furious 80s Finnish hardcore punk, they don’t allow reverence for the classics to box in their sound, crafting a unique and instantly identifiable blend of hardcore, punk, metal, and rock and roll. The title track leads off Kuristusleikki by going straight for the jugular, but by the second song, “Petoksen Messias,” the scope widens, bringing in black metal touches and double bass drumming, the creative and tasteful deployment of which is a hallmark of Valtatyhjiö’s sound. On the b-side, “Viilto Kerrallaan” has a big riff and a rock-and-roll swing, while “Riite” closes the EP on an ominous note, sounding like a more hateful version of label-mates Zorn. Like Zorn, Valtatyhjiö’s music floats between hardcore, punk, and metal seamlessly and organically. While those genres can feel like they’ve been done to death, Valtatyhjiö finds their voice in the spaces between and across them, their originality granting them direct access to the intensity at this music’s core.
Chaos OK: demo cassette
Sorry State presents the first release from Chaos OK, a new band featuring Nick Goode (from Logic Problem, Brain Flannel, and Joint D≠) on guitar and vocals, another Sorry State alumnus in Corey Long (drummer of the almighty Bukkake Boys,) and Eric from Atlanta's mysterious and elusive Loverman project. Nick’s expressionistic guitar style, informed equally by Hendrix, Kawakami, and the guy from Tampax, warmly returns to the label throughout these five tracks. The torrent of feedback and treble on the opener, “a rithm,” instantly recalls Joint D≠ at their most explosive; now fused with Corey & Eric's crushing rhythms, we're gifted an acutely weaponized bombast. While the tape starts with a hailstorm of chaotic energy, the latter three tracks brood, swerve, surge, and seethe, the cycles of tension and release as powerful and inevitable as the weather (the leather). Songs about seeing the trees for the forest—the brutally xeroxed repetition of the dissolving future, templated expression, grotesque oversaturation, when what used to excite you does not. Lamentations of the modern dance, the sounds of smuggling punk with you into your late 30s. As in their past projects, these guys continue to machete their way through the thickets, hungrily stumbling onto weird and new directions in raging, articulate hardcore.
Recommended Reissues
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Die Öwan: 美川憲一 (Mikawa Ken-Ichi) 12"
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- General Speech Records
- Regular price
- $18.00
- Sale price
- $18.00
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SS Decontrol: The Kids Will Have Their Say 12" (Grey Vinyl)
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- Trust Records
- Regular price
- $30.00
- Sale price
- $30.00
new on sorry state
Recommended books, zines, and other reads
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Hot New Releases
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Joro Path: Golden Lines cassette
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- Total Recall Recordings
- Regular price
- $6.00
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- $6.00
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Satanism: In Conspiracy with... cassette
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- Final Return Records
- Regular price
- $9.00
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- $9.00
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Warslaughter: Autólisis Coprolítica cassette
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- Final Return Records
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- $9.00
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- $9.00
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Daydream: Reaching For Eternity 12"
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- Black Water Records
- Regular price
- $18.00
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- $18.00
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Cruelster: Lost Inside My Mind In Another State of Mind - The Singles Collection 12"
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- Drunken Sailor Records
- Regular price
- $22.00
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- $22.00