Album Review: Nosebleed – Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor

For four years Nosebleed have been hitting stages up and down the country and pulling followers in with their suited and booted, infectious riffing and fist pumping garage punk and rock ‘n roll rhythms. Nosebleed have now joined the TNS Records family with the label announcing the release of their debut full length, Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor, on the 6th April with the album now available to pre-order. Recorded live in one weekend the band have captured their live, raw energy and squashed it all up into your listening medium of choice. Nosebleed will be touring the brand new album in the UK and Europe throughout April and May, spending most of the time off stage bringing their show right into your sweaty faces.

From the opening sub one minute blast of I’m Okay you’re hit by a wall of fuzzy primitive energy, from here on in you’re pummelled by thirteen intense hits of adrenalized garage punk, as a result Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor is on the short side, all thirteen tracks are delivered in around twenty two minutes with only three tracks creeping across the two minute barrier, and the fact that the album is on the brief side is the closest thing I can find to a fault with Nosebleed‘s TNS Records debut. Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor is nothing short of the prefect album of garage punk, it captures everything that has made the garage scene so vital for over five decades, from the primal throb of The Sonics, through the chaos of The Hives to the current wave of bands keeping the spirit alive.

The garage punk scene is arguably stronger than it’s ever been, from America’s The Two Tens to France’s Fuzzy Vox and the UK’s Witchdoktors and Blue Carpet Band, every corner of the world seems to be producing high energy garage punk bands, and it must be said that Nosebleed are a more than welcome addition to the renaissance. Every single track on Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor is a storming short sharp hit of garage punk that contains an irresistible rock ‘n roll hook. Nosebleed‘s latest release is rock ‘n roll in pure uncut form, and as a result this is the finest album I’ve heard this year and a certain heavyweight contender for my favourite album of the year.

Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor can be pre-ordered via TNS Records here

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