What: “Eat My Heart” by What Happened With You
Netlabel: Southern City’s Lab
This is an EP on Russian netlabel Southern City’s Lab. Five tracks of lo-fi buzzing guitar and punk energy. The best I am able to piece together is that WHWY is a one-man band, that man being Artyom Luzhin from Penza, Russia. This was released in December 2012.
The opener (the cleverly named “Intro”) is a short instrumental that sounds like a lost Pixies riff. The remaining four tracks are sung/chanted in multi-tracked English. The songs all share a heavy, driving guitar buzz. You can detect some Russian accent in the singing, which I mention only because the combination of that and the rhythm of the vocals in “I Do Not Hear You” at times creates a strange but cool effect of making the lyrics sound like they are being played backwards. The whole EP has all the right early punk attitude and execution.
Even if WHWY is not your thing, Southern City’s Lab has lots of music posted in a truly wide range of different styles – from the experimental electronics of Vi-Fi to the quieter acoustic guitar and singing of DadliFeniks. Use the embedded Google Translator if you need it and dig around; you will find something you like.