PUFFER, Dead Finks
PUFFER:
After a couple of years releasing EPs and touring around the world, PUFFER is set to put out their first full length album, Street Hassle, on Static Shock Records and Roachleg Records on June 13th, 2025. Since their beginning, they have crafted a unique blend of rock n roll and punk, a hard yet melodic sound that allows them to play with anyone from Fucked Up to Devil Master. Their energetic live shows are usually a great mix of people from all horizons dancing and having a good time. Puffer has started the year with a couple of Canadian shows supporting Prison Affair and is going to tour mainland Europe in support of their new LP in June and July with their friends Béton Armé.
DEAD FINKS:
Dead Finks, the long-running "post-punk" project based out of Berlin, are on their way back with a fourth record, one that maintains their trademark blend of hysterical cynicism and strident earnestness. Their unique position on the spectrum between sarcasm and sincerity has, for a while now, gained them scraps of attention within the underground. They carve an odd niche in their home city especially; Berlin isn’t known these days for guitar-driven music, and at its worst, the city often feels like it can’t decide whether it’s a giant club, a dysfunctional commune, or a content farm for a venture-capital-backed start-up.
But the Finks are nothing if not tenacious, and forging ahead for an unlikely fourth time has resulted in their strongest and most accessible work to date; New Plastik Abyss, an album teeming with ideas and bristling with a nervy, colourful confidence.
The propulsive, often abrasive sound of their previous records has been tempered somewhat by shimmering guitars, hyper-melodic vocal lines and an increased emphasis on clarity and dynamics that absorbs classic pop songwriting, shoegazy textures and avant garde art-music into their canon.
But it all still hits like a piston, with a conviction and vitality that suggests a band dangerously close to elevating themselves above cult curiosity status. Dead Finks have sharpened their edges and their gaze in what feels like a breakthrough.
