BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 12/09/2025: Snooper, Cut Cult, Geese and more…

Lots of unhinged noisy rock this week. Artists featured include Snooper, Cut Cult, Geese, I Wish I Was A Punk Band, Igorrr and Drake…

THE BEST:

‘Worldwide’ – Snooper

Nashville egg punk band (I had no idea ‘egg punk’ was a legitimate genre - it even has its own Wikipedia page), Snooper, are dropping a new album on October 3^rd titled Worldwide. This is the lead single and title track – it’s a fast-paced song with blown-out bass and lyrics about being jostled around that sound like chaotic dance instructions. It’s very addictive!

‘Dinosaur’ – Cut Cult

More blown-out bass! The riff 50 seconds in made me think my speaker was busted (a compliment). Are these guys an egg punk band too? I’m like the stomping groove, the psychedelic touches and the dinosaur costumes. It turns out the founder of this Nova Scotia band is also the founder of Canadian electronic band Holy Fuck, who I’m pretty certain I’ve listened to before (or was that Fuck Buttons? Or Fucked Up? Fuck, I can’t remember which band is which).

‘100 Horses’ – Geese

Brooklyn rock band Geese have been getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere lately, so I thought I’d give them a gander. This one is titled ‘100 Horses’ and comes off their upcoming album Getting Killed. It features loose frenetic instrumentation with bluesy elongated vocals over the top, held together by mean guitar riff that comes in and out as it pleases. It’s as entertainingly wild as a song about 100 horses should be. Out of curiosity, I checked out their other latest single ‘Trinidad’ too, and that’s just as entertainingly wild. Consider me a Geese fan! 

P.S. On the topic of horses and geese, I’ll leave you with this important question: would you rather fight 100 goose-sized horses, or 1 horse-sized goose?

‘Threadcount’ – I Wish I Was A Punk Band

I Wish I Was A Punk Band is the solo project of Seattle-based artist Phil Hamilton, and possibly the least punky music featured this week. In fact, I’m getting Animal Collective vibes from this. It’s a song about the weightiness of life with a quirky stilted guitar riff driving it along.

‘Headbutt’ – Igorrr

Wacky French metal project Igorrr is dropping a new album next Friday titled Amen. Every single from the record so far has been brilliantly deranged. ‘Headbutt’ contrasts comically extreme metal sections with classical piano arpeggios and church choir vocals. It continuously glitches out and ends with an excavator literally smashing all 88 keys on a piano.

THE WORST:

‘Dog House’ – Drake ft. Yeat & Julia Wolf

Drake continues to churn out pure dross. The opening grungy guitars with Julia Wolf singing over the top gave me hope we were going to get something a bit different from the Canadian rapper. But then it cuts to a generic rage beat with some all-bark-no-bite rapping from Drake. Also, did Yeat just try to enter the Kendrick beef?: ‘Fuck a money tree, I’m a cash cow’.