Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Shapes and Forms EP

After already dropping one of the best singles of the year, one that has yet to be tied to a physical release, perennial favorites Eddy Current Suppression Ring hit back hard yet again with a full EP for Aussie indie Cool Death. The EP hangs on the ecstatic snap of its title track, a classic ECSR kicker that’s built on bent and barbed shards of guitar, a heat-seeking slalom of bass, and the shredded yowl of Brendan “Suppression” Huntley. The cut’s a lean and limber callback to the kind of punk pounders that the Aussie exports have been known for, and it joins “Swimming Hole” as a ’25 Eddy Current crusher. The EP is rounded out with two b-sides, the mid-tempo twister “Oh No!,” a cut that indulges in a few strums, eschewing the band’s penchant for for crushed aluminum angles. It’s a short, but sweet palette cleanser after the title track. The EP is rounded out with the bluster of “Despite It All,” a less limber vision of the band that throws back to the group’s early days in the 7” grotto. The EP is (or was) available in a variety of sleeve colors, but you’d have to have been up pretty early or late Stateside to have grabbed one of those. Hopefully the imports are rolling out somewhere soon. Grab the digital, even if you can’t spin it on the deck. The new EP is out now from Cool Death Records.