Cyber Bullies-Leather and Lazers; More Power Tapes 2018

 

 More audio fun for Disaster Amnesiac via Feral Kid tapes, this time in the form of Cyber Bullies and their blink and you'll miss it duration tape, Leather and Lazers. Paraphrasing from Frontier Records and their tag line for Circle Jerks Group Sex print ad, it's five chow blowing tunes in six minutes. Like I said, blink and you'll miss it. Featuring songs such as March 30, '81 and You Don't Care About New Wave, this release seems to mark Cyber Bullies as a band somewhat obsessed with the era in which groups such as Circle Jerks and their Los Angeles peers were putting out some of the greatest music in Rock history. These Bullies do a good job of shaping their take on that music, too, with cool organ sounds framing the quickly picked guitar riffs and tight drumming. It all hangs together well, with a fast-paced rhythmic focus. The singer sounds pretty crazed as he intones stories about being Born In the Mid To Late 60's and how Gorbachev was right. Is it currently not correct to express such an opinion about a Russian statesman, comrades? Judging from the looks of the guys on the cover, they probably couldn't really give a crap about that question, and Punk 'innit? This tape is certainly Punk Rock and Roll (is Disaster Amnesiac dating myself with phrase?), so, yeah, even if you do care a lot about New Wave in whatever its current form, you can also be a dude and care about aural blitzkriegs such as Leather and Lazers. Just remember to pay attention, because it's over in a flash. I bet that these guys are a stone hoot, live.