Album Review: Get The Fuck Outta Dodge – Buzzkill

Get The Fuck Outta Dodge are a duo that do things on their own terms, whenever and however they want to, the band only formed in 2019 and since then they’ve been hammering out DIY garage punk releases that take their cue from everyone from The Cramps to Black Flag through to Death From Above 1979. Since spring 2019 they’ve released a smattering of singles, their ten track debut album “Climbing Higher, Hitting Harder Than King Kong“, and subsequently released a filthy bare bones remix with the glitter blown off. They followed this up with two EP’s, the fifteen track covers EP “These Songs Aren’t Ours” and “We Make The Future Here“, and are now set to release their sophomore album “Buzzkill” on the 30th October.

What you aren’t going to get from Get The Fuck Outta Dodge is subtlety or self indulgence, only one track on “Buzzkill” sneaks over the two minute marker, this is full on down and dirty DIY garage punk. The album’s sub one minute title track is a prime example of Get The Fuck Outta Dodge‘s approach, frantic drums and fuzzed out bass meet in a soundclash that resembles a head on collision between the pre hip-hop days of the Beastie Boys and Mondo Generator. From here on in you get a combination of grinding bass and drums that ricochets around the history of the punk and alternative scenes, the whole thing is filtered through a fuzzbox and then distilled and condensed down into short angry outbursts that, due to the prolific output, tend to reflect whatever is going on in their world. “Buzzkill” ends with ‘Trying Not To Be Punk Is The Most Punk Thing I’ve Ever Done‘, an attitude that pretty much sums them up

Get The Fuck Outta Dodge aren’t trying to fit in with anyone or anything, this duo is doing exactly what they want and putting out music as and they feel like it, which is often, on their own terms, the end result is a fast relentless demented soundtrack that lurks on the fuzzy fringes of the punk scene. For me “Buzzkill” is Get The Fuck Outta Dodge‘s finest seventeen minutes to date, whilst their previous albums and EP’s had highlights it seems that on their sophomore full length they have found their groove. This gloriously primitive eleven track album will be released on the 30th October via digital service providers, it will also be available on a ridiculously limited edition seven inch double transparent square vinyl with inner lyric sleeves and a ‘colour it in yrslef’ gatefold, that generously comes compete with the crayons, via Bandcamp.

Get The Fuck Outta Dodge‘s Bandcamp can be found here