Ears Wide Open: Terry Malts

Kevin Bronson on August 4th, 2014

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A lot of the time, L.A./San Francisco fuzz-bombers Terry Malts sound pissed off enough to be our age. On two full-lengths, 2012’s “Killing Time” and last year’s “Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere” (both of which we came to regrettably late), the band of singer-bassist Phil Benson, guitarist Corey Cunningham and drummer Nathan Sweatt married the medium to the message, coupling noisy, first-wave punk-rock with equally serrated social commentary. Kind of like if the Ramones wrote two-minute pieces for the op-ed pages. Anyway, on Sept. 23, Terry Malts will release its new “Insides” EP via the home of everything reverb, Slumberland Records. It’s four songs and eight minutes long, which is plenty. Cunningham wins our AARP merit badge for singing “Grumpiest Old Men,” and they cover “Hidden Bay” by Kiwi-pop legends the Chills too. Not once are we tempted to shout “Get off my lawn.”

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