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To start off this review, here are the actual notes I took while listening to this EP:

"Black Shitty
Bad Midi
Hobo Johnson, New Road"

Look, I know that I'm very much late to this party, but I feel like that's excused when there was never a party to begin with.

I went into this project merely with some genre information... post-punk and such: usually a blast! But after coming out of this project, that was the first time I've had to actually sit in horror with what I ... read more

I do feel bad saying this, and I do feel like it might just be a me thing, but...

...this is one of the least impactful albums I have heard in a good while.

Aside from Actress (which is spectacular) and Heart of Darkness (which I'll get to later), none of these songs left a mark on me as a listener. I just kind of brushed them aside once I got done listening to the album. I didn't have any major "damn, this is great" moments, nor did I frequently have to question my taste ... read more

The Viagra Boys have always delivered their dirty and unique sound incredibly well, and that goes for this album too. But the thing about Street Worms that sets it back for me is the fact that it simply doesn't feel like an album experience, but rather a sort of elongated EP if that makes sense.

There seems to be little cohesion between tracks, the flow is incredibly odd and a lot of the songs rely on the same sort of rhythms and even a similar BPM... but distinction might've never ... read more

Squid had kind of flown under my radar ever since I was introduced to them through a neat looking record I found at a store titled Cowards.

It was a good record, yes: beautiful guitar work on songs like Fieldworks II and Cowards, but also a strange, infectious, kraut-rock infused art punk raver. That song is Crispy Skin. Being the opener to Cowards, it was also the first song I ever heard from Squid. It was a great first impression... of something that would not return anywhere on that ... read more