Spucke Zustand cassette
Nine-song debut release out of Hamburg, Germany—this recording was also released on vinyl by No Front Teeth Records. Fittingly, given the digital collage used for the album art, the music on this cassette feels similarly slapped together. This recording essentially sounds like the audio equivalent of a collage. With four different singers and presumably just as many songwriters, it is hard to pin down exactly what SPUCKE is trying to be. This is kind of a street punk recording, but also has wailing rock’n’roll guitar solos, repetitive garage punk song structures with monotonous barking vocals, and one song that inexplicably sounds like it wants to be QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE. Take all the ideas, throw ’em in a blender, and pour them into nine separate portions to whip up one debut album. There is a reason that the tried-and-true method within punk is releasing a demo tape before jumping straight to a record. While I am a proponent of finishing all ideas, not every idea is fit for consumption. If SPUCKE is to withstand the test of time, I can almost guarantee that their next release will sound much more like a record rather than just a smattering of song ideas.