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while "Der LSD-Marsch" provides a measured slow-burn finale

creating an immersive wall of analog sound

Red Seas & Lost Ghosts" masterfully blends vintage synthesizers and drum machines with shoegaze sensibilities

Making The Road Bop and coversMaking the Road, by Japanese thrash kids Hi Standard, dishes out the same kind of epileptic hardcore that can be found on their previous U. S. releases on Fat Wreck Chords, the San Francisco based punk label. All is not spit and bile, however; these guys mix campy covers like "Green Acres" with the searing punk rock of "Teenagers Are All Assholes" and the pretty, flute laden instrumental "Tinkerbell Hates Goatees." Making the Road proves that there is