WARM LEATHER - Manic Static / Vocabulary 7"

Highly recommended.

Auckland trio Warm Leather, fronted by NZ legend Andrew Tolley (Bloodbags, The Hasslehof Experiment), have squeezed two hefty slabs of garage punk insanity onto one shiny 7" vinyl disc. "Manic Static" slaps listeners in the chops with Tolley's wild howls atop of badass riffage and steamrolling grooves, while "Vocabulary" ploughs into listeners' earholes with the intensity of a madman, intermittently exploding into a maelstrom of tangled strings and flailing limbs before reconvening for another round of aural pummelling.

Warm Leather describe themselves as a "some kinda frenzied mess of Birthday Party stalk, Wire scratch, and Gordons punk grunt" and it would be dangerous to disagree.