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Photo by AJ Stark Bristol's Langkamer are being billed as alt-country and country punk. With their latest single, "Full Contact," I'm not really hearing that sound, although there are some of the bare bones of country twang in there. To me, I'm hearing more Pavement going more mainstream and having a harder edge, with some country twang hinting around the edges.  Drummer Joshua Jarman explains the song:  " I had a pretty miserable time in school. It was such an absurdly strict and stifling environment. Even the classes I should’ve loved and done well in were structured in such a restrictive way as to choke any joy out of them. It’s a rotten way to spend your time. That’s what the song’s about. Plus I guess it’s kind of a tribute to the Louis Sacher novel ‘Holes ’." You can watch the video for "Full Contact" below. The song is available now via Breakfast Records. For more on Langkamer, check them out on Facebook and Twitter .

An ode to recycling doesn't sound like the basis of a great song, but it's 2019, so who even knows how the world works anymore, right? Hailing from Bristol, Gork's new song "That's Plastic Mate" is simply weird. It has the backbeat groove of post punk, but it's a noisy psychedelic song, that's also some form of pop. Imagine Frank Zappa partying with Ween and Gang of Four, and you might end up with "That's Plastic Mate." Guitarist/vocalist Ed Soles says of the song:  "Little Bruce lived a normal life, unaware of our plastic oceans. Some say he ate too much fish, who knows maybe he did. Either way, he is an Evian bottle now. 'Plastic' warns parents everywhere of the dangers of this translucent lifestyle. If you don’t want baby Sarah or chubby Paul to wake up as a bottle then you best praise the bins and praise the recycling. That's plastic mate." You can watch the video for "That's Plastic Mate" bel...