Plateaus - "Do It For You"

San Diego garage smash and poppers Plateaus are following up their 2011 Art Fag debut with another 7", this time on Hozac Records. The A Side, "Do It For You," is one of those simple and repetitive rock n roll jangles that seems almost silly on paper, but in song seeps into your ear canal, latches onto your brain like one of those remora suckers, and proves absolutely impossible to shake. I listened to this song twice yesterday, and woke up with the melody dancing around in my head. Sometimes, simple is good. Damn good.

Buy the vinyl from Hozac.

Plateaus - "Do It For You"

Bleached - "You Take Time"

Bleached, comprised of sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin, has quickly become one of my favorite bands this summer, thanks to snappy and hook-laden garage-punk jams like "Dazed" and "No Friend of Mine." Earlier this month we posted the A-side to their forthcoming Art Fag single, the Misfits-channeling headbanger "Think of You." Now the B-side, "You Take Time," is making it's way around the interweb—and I might dig it even more. Over a gain-heavy chord progression, the Clavins' harmonize the chorus with a "Fox On The Run" recalling-melody that sticks to your ears like a chewed piece of bubblegum on a public park bench. And by that I mean, this is one hell of a catchy track.

Buy the Carter 7"

Bleached - "You Take Time" (from Carter 7")

Bleached - "Think of You" (from Carter 7")

Bleached - "Think of You"

As Bleached, sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin deliver snappy, classically constructed, easy-on-the-ears punk music. The group already has one 7" under their belts—the Francis EP, out now via Ooga Booga—with a second, the Carter 7", due out July 19th on Art Fag. Carter features two new tracks, "Think of You" and "You Take Time." "Think of You," the A-side, is a bouncy three-chord wonder of strummy punk with a sharp bass line and ear-catching vocal melodies: a lo-fi, female vision of the Ramones equipped with head-banging rhythms and sing-along choruses. In short, I can't stop listening to it.

Buy the Francis EP / Buy the Carter 7"

Bleached - "Think of You" (from Carter7")
Bleached - "Dazed" (from Francis EP)