Great Waitress - back, before CD hidetag2004 whilst Japan’s Haruka follows suit

whilst Japan’s Haruka follows suit with the elastic Ishinoko

These ten tracks of ‘snappy as elastic’ punk are packed with tensile riffs

The eleven-song album hovers over a plot of ground that’s optimistic in its despair

- familiar elements of them all can be heard here

plod and playful bite

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