Buy Beer

Various artists, “Buy Beer” (12XV, 2012)
Fine comp, some artists local (Austin) and/or on the label, some not; sound programming and selection make a case for its contents as a coherent whole of noisy, rousing contemporary punk rock. Highlights include A/2 (spacey garage-punk), A/4 (gorgeously twisted noise-pop), A/5 (heavy, disjointed psych), B/2 (moody/jangly postpunk), B/5 (buzzy/melodic garage-punk), B/7 (thunderous lo-fi-punk structure-busting).
5/5/12