Esoteric Love

VINYL FORMAT. The debut full-length long-player from former Carbonas frontman Greg "GG" King. On Esoteric Lore we find some highly Carbonic moments - traces of Hubble Bubble, The Kids, Zero Boys, et. al. - but we also hear the King & Co. vamp on vibes harnessed only previously by goth-punk forebears: early Christian Death, 45 Grave. We sense smudged traces of minimal mania a la 100 Flowers. We catch whiffs of the emblematic hardcore of the Germs and T.S.O.L., feel the plod 'n' thud of Negative Trend. We're treated to bits of hijacked shortwave, aural static clinging 'tween songs proper, bleeding into the tunes themselves. And we hear a walloping wayward punk rec that nods knowingly toward L.A.-circa-'82, but in melding its influences, somehow sounds distinctly Atlanta, and right now.