Uschis Mutti Urlieb LP
From Bremen, Germany, we get a full head-on punk stomper from USCHIS MUTTI that touches on a bunch of stuff in the hardcore and punk fields. Päpsy’s vocals are delivered with machine-accurate precision, flowing with the music and making her words and message as much an instrument as they are budding with powerful imagery. Punctuating her vocals are BumBum and Arne, perfectly disrupting enough to move Urlieb into an unpredictable, interesting, and melancholy atmosphere. What USCHIS MUTTI delivers is a heavy hardcore punk record with thoughtful songs, some twisting and some straightforward, leaving you with a cratered feeling and wanting to fill the hole with more USCHIS MUTTI. The LP has eight songs that average three minutes each, with the last track “Horner Eck” slugging forward and slowly gaining speed, reigned in at a couple seconds under seven minutes. Everything about this release, from the sequencing to the songs themselves, feels deliberate and thoughtful. USCHIS MUTTI, I feel, had a big-picture plan on what they wanted to do with Urlieb. I’m really digging this record.