Anxiety - AnxietyFormed in August 2015 Glasgow's ANXIETY have achieved quite a reputation locally thru their stage presence. A fully formed band which irradiates personality from the very first play and is not afraid to look at hardcore punk from outside the box. This their first release sees the band delivering nine tracks of discordant hardcore with layers and layers of distortion and vocal effects in barely 20 minutes. Pinpointing a band like ANXIETY is really

'Pool' is an elegantly drawn set of gorgeous synth-driven pop songs

One of the few records Gottsching released under his own name

LP - Housed in a deluxe Gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket

After a complete mess of a European tour with the Persuaders

surfer-girl ode 'ed is dead'

With vocal duties this time taken by the boys themselves

to Butthole Surfers' then-usual battery of electric guitar

at which point Statton began writing with Wrexham native Mark 'Spike' Williams

' the balance of this album sounds decidedly more european

Day One (Peel Session) D3

Nots are still a wild guitar band

it's just what came out of us at that point