My administration is still a mess after renovating and switching homes, but there’s a simple pleasure in discovering amazing stuff buried in my Bandcamp wantlist backlog. Here’s one where the release date on Bandcamp says October 1991, but I’m pretty sure it came out in the past two months or so. It’s CHICAGO TO THE VALLEY, the KILLER, EXTREMELY CATCHY new EP by DANGÜS TARKÜS.

The band is fronted by Joe Sussman (NANCY, MUFF DIVERS, THE CELEBRITIES), who does most of the work with occasional help from friends—this time on drums (AJ), trumpet (DIZZY GILLESPIE), and “barks” (WENDY SÜSSMAN). Sussman’s typewriter is STILL broken, as he STILL writes everything in ALL CAPS. His music lacks subtlety as well, and that’s exactly what makes the five tracks on CHICAGO TO THE VALLEY so irresistible.

The first track says it all: GONNA SMASH IT (IF I SEE YR FACE AGAIN)!—pure budget garage-pop-punk-‘n’-roll straight from the late ’70s playbook. It’s followed by the title track, a slack-ish garage pop hit, the fast and rollin’ DYING IN CLEVELAND, and THIS IS MY STÜPID SONG—which could have been written by Ben Weasel. The EP closes with EVERYTIME WE TALK, a song that seem directly taken from Guitar Romantic.

I live for stumbling upon stuff like this. Music is pretty fun, eh?

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