Omega Radio for August 13, 2022; #323.

Casual Hex: "New You"

Body Type: "Bouyancy"

Keg: "Heyshaw"

During: "Birds Of Juneau"

Landowner: "War Leads To War"

Media Jeweler: "Helicopter"

Straw Man Army: "Day 49"

Kneeling In Piss: "I Am A Patsy"

Spread Joy: "Ow" + "Contrition"

Snooper: "Come Together"

Smarts: "Smarts Theme"

Debbie Downers: "Man In A Panic"

Argument?: "I Just Wanna' Have Some Fun"

Maraudeur: "Robot Machine"

Clear History: "Solar Death Ray"

Stoner Will & The Narks: "(The Externality Of) Cheap Beer (Is Tacit Consent To Empire)"

Cagette: "Scatty Man"

Kaputt: "Hi! I'm The Wasp"

Doc Flippers: "Terrible II"

Bodega: "Thrown"

Pinch Points: "Am I Okay" + "Reasons to Be Anxious"

BB Eye: "Poke You In The Eye"

Desperfecto: "Olvide"

Trash Kit: "Shyness"

Tyvek: "We're Back"

Unschooling: "Shopping On The Left Bank"

Traps PS: "CCTV"

Rips: "Mirror"

Nicfit: "Fuse"

Handle: "untitled demo #2"

Spllit: "Heavy Handed Time"

Pardoner: "Bunny's Taxi"

Screensaver: "Static State"

La Jungle: "Hyperitual"

Pamphlets: "Flowers"

Savak: "No Blues No Jazz"

Last Night: "Magnetique"

Splitting Image: "Hard To Reach"

Sarcasm: "Conceptual Forms"

Marbled Eye: "Laughing Sound"

Mystic Inane: "Josephine The Singer"

Krimi: "Vicious Cycle"

Hypoluxo: "Sometimes"

10/27/21.

I mentioned this Traps Ps (Los Angeles, California) album the other day when posting about Healing Gems. Trap Ps deserve their own post.

This album is about as far away from the sounds of Healing Gems as possible. Traps Ps sound like they could have been on the Ork Records compilation that highlights New York music from the late 1970s. Really, they recall and even more post-punk sound than Television. And, as someone who loves Australian band EXEK, I could file this right next to EXEK if I was organizing my music like John Cusack's character in High Fidelity. I'm an alphabetical organizer.

10/29/19.

Innovative Leisure (Los Angeles) is one of those labels that is all over the music spectrum with their releases.  Every once in a while I’m hooked by one of their new releases.  Last year it was the excellent Traps PS album.

Iguana Death Cult are from Rotterdam, Netherlands.  “Nude Casino” apparently gives us a toned down, less aggressive sound.  The Bandcamp page says the sound is a “ragged and convulsive post-punk attack akin to Devo, The Gun Club, and Richard Hell.” 

Song of the Day

Traps PS- Peer Review

This song is from LA band Traps PS‘s 2025 album, Abstractor.

4/4/25.

Traps PS (Los Angeles, CA) released a new LP last month. It's on Andrew Jeffords own Papermade label (along with Why Sect Records).

Traps PS is one of those rare bands (like Wire, or Mission of Burma) who can do angular post-punk that's hard and driving, and then switch to more melody. Listen to track one "Glass Atlas" and then track two "Peer Review" to get an idea of what I mean.

8/19/18.

Innovative Leisure is a label out of Los Angeles, California.  I own one release from them (Allah Las), but I think The Molochs are the only release I’ve actaully posted about.

Traps PS took me totally by surprise.  This isn’t like either Allah Las or The Molochs.  This is intense, driven, post punk:  The Minutemen, Gang of Four, Wire, Protomartyr, and maybe even Talking Heads.