Label: Army Of Bad

Released 2013

Atlanta has a way of breeding its punks to be grade-A weirdos. The same town that's given us BLACK LIPS, DEERHUNTER, and other wonderful cross-pollinations now offers up CARNIVORS. In truth, this five-piece band of psychedelic skuzz-pop bandits has been kicking around long enough to drop two albums and a handful of EPs, but something happened on the way up to their brand new LP, Second Impulse. The group discovered a deeper strangeness and wound up with a mix of surf-pop, post-punk, new wave, and garage rock. All of that is streaming below, from "Spell," which somehow sounds like the ZOMBIES covering the SPECIALS, to "Prom Night," a noirish ride through coiffed clang, to "Sinking in Your Automobile," which in fact features lead vocals from BLACK LIPS rabble-rouser Cole Alexander. Second Impulse is out now on ATL's own Army of Bad Luck Records.

Track listing:

1. Loom  
2. Moonlight Missionary  
3. Spell  
4. Dressed For The Rain
5. Sinking In Your Automobile  
6. Gates Of Paradise
7. Second Impulse
8. Prom Night  
9. Born Again    
10. Torch