Heathen Disco Music Reviews #0153 (December 19, 2025)

I felt remiss in not giving my readers what they came for: insight into new music. Lists will pick back up next week but let’s listen to ten releases from 2025 and be as one.

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(pic of the Kitchen + The Plastic Spoons singer on here for no other reason other than looks cool, good band, etc.)

EQUIPMENT POINTED ANKH Eggs a Little Late LP (Petty Bunco)

Feels like an eternity since EPA reared its dozen heads, so if you’ve never gotten down, time to learn – the loose screws behind the Sophomore Lounge / Roadhouse Band have reconfigured for a really grand affair, sounding more than ever like Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 communing on Faust’s farm, figuring out what’s growing behind the taller crops during their meadow meal. Some of the blockier electronic elements from previous releases have been crowded out by bodies in the room, and it’s what separates Eggs a Little Late from many of their other releases – it’s still the clearinghouse of ideas, but after discovering a whole aquifer filled with life-giving water, vitamins and energy drinks. Your mind narrowed amid societal pressure; let these folks pry it back open.

LIGAMENT Demo MMXXV CS (Headsplit)

Never seeking out metal might be one of my biggest blindspots in musical discovery, and one I want to right, so I’m starting here with this Cleveland death metal/sludge unit and chewing my way out. Fuck! Sulfurous vomit vocals – from the drummer! – with a punishing assault, double kick (of course) and bass/guitars set to build on both the beat and the riff, tight as it comes, almost getting into noise rock territory at points but played with the possessed hands of Satan’s acolytes, which rarely miss. FUCK!

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