Useless Stilettos: American Boy II
(Cracked Ankles)
7″ | DL
2nd Could 2025
Manchester’s depraved and wirey garage-punks Useless Stilettos return with a quickfire new single on the ever-wonderful Crackedankles Data.
Not two months in the past we had been singing the praises of Useless Stilettos on the discharge of their debut EP. “…plucked and pruned, shorn of fats, wirey and depraved to the very finish”, we stated as we begged for extra. And now we have now it. Two extra nice tracks that show they’re ones to look at this 12 months. Having already launched their EP on the improbable Bitter Grapes Data, for his or her new single they’ve a hand from the equally nice Cracked Ankles, house to the like of Evil Blizzard, useless issues, Hauspoints and more moderen LTW favourites.
And any followers of these bands will know precisely the place Useless Stilettos are coming from, as American Boy II surges forth over a deep, darkish and twisted post-punk storage racket. It drops all the way down to sparse, one-guitar line drones earlier than kicking up once more right into a confrontational riot. It already looks as if they’ll be band which can be exhausting to pin down as they flit by means of gothic tones and out into spiky storage/punk.
Over on the flip aspect they provide us Learn The Signal. Over a scattergun beat they lay down one among their most aggressive spitting punk observe up to now. It riles and rages, an excellent sonic battering with an excellent grooving bassline behind it, vocals that warn of hazard within the darkness. Cracking stuff.
However, you snooze and lose as phrase has simply are available in whereas writing that the 7″ single has already flown out. So, you’ll should await a (doable) repress, leap on Ebay (however who is aware of how a lot they are going to be going for there) or head on over to Bandcamp or presave it right here.
Catch Useless Stilettos stay…
02/05: The Ferret, Preston (Crackedankles Weekender)
03/05: The Packhorse, Leeds
17/05: Meltchester Pageant, Manchester
Teeside, Bristol, Stoke, and London dates to return…and there are whisperings of some important competition dates coming in for them too.
Useless Stilettos are on Fb, Instagram, and TikTok.
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Phrases by Nathan Whittle. Discover his Louder Than Warfare archive right here.
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