Guerilla Toss - Famously Alive

There are respectable creative risks taken on Famously Alive, but some of them end up sounding surprisingly derivative for GT.

Guerilla Toss - What Would the Odd Do?

A quick review of the new Guerilla Toss EP—it’s good!

Guerilla Toss - Twisted Crystal

Twisted Crystal is all the zany pop fun of GT Ultra, but set in space and on LSD.

Guerilla Toss - GT ULTRA

Thanks to some clearer production, more up-front performances, and a zany new wave influence, GT ULTRA is the most I've ever enjoyed a Guerilla Toss album.

Guerilla Toss - "The String Game"

Guerilla Toss continues in the direction of catchy and jerky dance-punk with "The String Game," the lead single from their new album GT ULTRA. This'll be the band's second full-length release on DFA Records, with a June 23 street date. The track's quasi-lyric video is pretty cool, featuring an abstract and grimy animation style.

Guerilla Toss - Flood Dosed EP

Guerilla Toss brings the new age rage on latest EP Flood Dosed, out September 25 via DFA. It forecasts the group's follow-up to 2013's Gay Disco, which according to the band ought to be out within the next few months. In the meantime, they're hitting the road:

9/17 Philadelphia PA @ Everybody Hits
9/18 Philadelphia PA @ Haverford College
9/19 Long Island NY @ Huntington Rd. Beach Club
9/26 Queens NY @ Riis Park Beach Bazar
9/27 Brooklyn NY @ Shea Stadium
9/28 Providence RI @ Aurora
10/3 Chicago IL @ Hyde Park Free Theater
10/9 Brooklyn NY @ Palisades
10/10 Portland ME @ Waking Windows fest
10/13 Harrisonburg VA @ Golden Pony *
10/14 Athens OH @ House Show *
10/15 Chicago IL @ Secret Location *
10/16 Toronto ON @ 8-11 Dungeon *
10/17 Montreal ON @ Drones *
10/18 Burlington VT @ The Sink *
10/19 Boston MA @ Cantab Lounge *
10/22 Poughkeepsie NY @ Vassar College
10/23 Amherst MA @ Hampshire College
10/24 Amherst MA @ Amherst College
10/31 Brooklyn NY @ Palisades

*w/ Buck Gooter

Guerilla Toss - "367 Equalizer" (Video)

Often, Guerilla Toss is revered as one of the noisier, more comprehensive American punk bands, with screeching vocals and wide instrumentals that makes up for what it lacks in melody with drive, energy and chaos. “367 Equaliser” is the comparatively quite friendly track, released earlier this year, which now features a music video that is as bizarre as the song is groovy (which is a lot). The drumming is relaxed, the bassline is funky, the singing is more controlled than usual, and overall the song seems to have been more thoughtful and direct, which a big change for a band whose bassist usually likes to take his pants off on stage. The video features moving animations which often mesh and weave into the next. The animations themselves are basic and totally abstract, which lends to the independent art idea that I think they set out to achieve. The song and video are a subtly well thought out combination, and is certainly a league above the previous attempt for the track “Drip Decay” in 2013. Perhaps the group are channelling their creativity more towards the art side than the punk in their widening genre spectrum – but either way, the results are interesting.

- Fin Worrall

Guerilla Toss - Smack the Brick EP

https://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/sets/guerilla-toss-smack-the-brick-cassette Everybody's favorite funked-out, rock-out-with-your-pud-out, no-wave five-piece Guerilla Toss is back and funkier than ever with this new four track EP, Smack the Brick. The project finds the Allston act continuing to tighten their compositions, evoking something like a primeval Talking Heads with their now rather danceable grooves. It's a far cry from the improvised punk stylings of, say, the band's self-titled Tzadik debut, but I think they're doing a nice balancing act of loose and tight at the moment, so I can't really complain. Besides, they apparently have a split thing with B L A C K I E coming up, which may well see the return of their more free-improvised side. Until then, check out Smack the Brick above and enjoy!