Who’s Landing In My Hangar?

Human Switchboard, “Who’s Landing In My Hangar?” (Fat Possum, 2019; original release 1982)
This criminally neglected Midwest postpunk/proto-Indie masterpiece is finally back in the public spotlight, and it’s about time. From Kent, Ohio, they melded neurotic Velvets-derived strum-pulse with organ-driven garage-punk simplicity and punch (à la? and the Mysterians, from nearby Flint, Mich., a decade earlier). Alternating guy-gal vocals trace the frayed stitching of an actual relationship between the two (à la contemporaries John and Exene) all against a bracingly gray Rustbelt backdrop. Don’t miss this one.
Try 1/1, 1/ 4, 1/5, 2/1, 2/5
6/9/19