Hot Nerds – Strategically Placed Bananas lpHot Nerds Strategically Placed Bananas lp "On Strategically Placed Bananas, Nathan Joyner and Alia Jyawook only partially embrace the half serious dance punk anti aesthetic that marked earlier efforts. Now a trio, Hot Nerds have built up their wheelhouse to include more brutal, tightly wound bursts of digital skronk made whole by raw, close micd drumscourtesy of third Nerd Thomas OConnell but as always marked by Joyners decimated guitar tones and

The new album titled Reclaim The World features 16 songs of questioning lyrics and intense music

Agro Jive s/t (first) lp

Instrumental bands are unburdened by half-hearted prose

Zoviet France and Throbbing Gristle that most immediately stand out as primary influences on the seven distinctly abstracted tracks collected here

on this recording are trumpet player (Franz Hautzinger)

it zipped right by

and the still-active thrashers Sadistic Ritual

its equally enjoyable

Burger Boogaloo 2012

It doesn’t feel disjointed

creating a broad-band spectrum of texture and motion' (Freq

Much of The First Four Years finds the band in developmental mode