SECRET BOYFRIEND - "Listener's Guide" LPSecret Boyfriend Listener's Guide LP (Enmossed, 2024) Been spinning this one over and over since it landed, without even really actively trying to. I just can't seem to bring myself to take it off the turntable. Golden Birthday meets People Skills is the first comparison that comes to mind, maybe a dash of Rat Columns or a lonelier mid late career SY added to taste, but Ryan has clearly carved out his own unique little landscape that stretches and

No matter the precise filling you've eaten some variation many

Fin’s guitar is full size

but it’s reaching toward something more like the song-oriented anarcho punk of Zounds and Crisis

raw meat lickin' econo-funk

Dahm Cipolla (Phantom Family Halo

the die-cut in the white outer sleeve revealing a shiny black foil stamp on the black inner sleeves

as do the years

Grandma's Roadhouse

or like the Ramones did an entire album of songs like Warthog

In these drawings the artist puts himself in many tragic situations

Pablo's Eye - The Light Was Sharp

Man gets tired