Sorry state newsletter: August 21, 2025

This week we have a brilliant Record of the Week from Barcelona's Ayucaba and a ton of other punk rock rock records from all over the globe!

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New and Recommended Punk & Hardcore Ragers!

  • Las Ánimas Del Cuarto Obscuro: S/T 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Traidora: Una Mujer Trans Sin País 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
  • La Isla Electronica: S/T 7"
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    $10.00
  • Durs Cœurs: Crise Cardiaque 12"
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  • Various: Weird Scenes From Inside The Droll Mind 7"
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  • Champ Gauche: Protection Du Voisinage cassette
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  • Gentleman Jesse: I Wonder if You Would Even Notice - Singles and Rarities 12"
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    $18.00
  • Negative Charge: S/T 12"
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    $24.00

Recommended Reissues

  • Quite Ridiculous Nonsense: A Failure... 7"
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    $12.00
  • The Apostles: The Acts Of The Apostles In The Theatre Of Fear 12"
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  • The Reducers: Limited Edition 7"
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  • TV Smith: Channel 5 12"
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  • K2 / K. Kusafuka (草深公秀): Re-Musik 12"
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  • K2 / K. Kusafuka (草深公秀) & Techno Menses: Requiem In The Sun 12"
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  • Descendents: Milo Goes to College 12" (gray vinyl) (PRE-ORDER)
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    Org Music
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  • Descendents: Milo Goes to College 12" (Punk Note Edition) (PRE-ORDER)
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recently restocked

  • Necron 9: People Die 12"
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  • Zyanose: Total End of Existence 12"
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  • Frenzy: Beyond The Edge of Madness 12"
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  • SIKM: Now I Must Comply 12"
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more of this month's best sellers

Ayucaba: Operación Masacre 12"
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$25.00
Puffer: Street Hassle 12"
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Ignorantes: Las Promesas Que Te Hacemos Te Las Puedes Meter Por El Culo 7''
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Catharsis: Hope Against Hope 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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$25.00

two new releases on Sorry State up for pre-order

Illiterates: No Experts 12" (Sorry State Records) The “dumbest band in hardcore” returns with twelve more rampaging tracks. While Illiterates’ last record, 2023’s No Experts, trimmed their compositions to the bone, Does Not Compute widens the scope just a hair, making room for anthemic mid-paced parts (see “Remember When” and the epic title track), blazing Straight Ahead-esque crossover rippage (“Sustainability”), and even a touch of trad youth crew (the Can’t Close My Eyes influences were all over No Experts, but “No One Wants To” is pure Revelation Records circa 1988). Illiterates have also added a new guitarist since the last record, which they’re so excited about they wrote a song about it (“Hig Champion”), though they tastefully limit themselves to just a few eruptions of fret-melting lead licks. And while Illiterates insist they’re dumb, their lyrics are full of wisdom you don’t get at the library, like the anti-pretension anthem “Read the Room” (my favorite lyric: “one thing school didn’t teach you is how to read the fucking room”). Hair-splitting aside, Does Not Compute is another great hardcore record from one of the best bands in the game right now.

Knowso: Hypnotic Smack 12" (Sorry State Records) Hypnotic Smack is the new album from Knowso, the Cleveland punk duo featuring Nathan Ward (Cruelster, Perverts Again, the Carp) and Jayson Gerycz (Cloud Nothings). If you’ve heard Knowso’s music, you know they’re spiritual children of Devo, both in their proclivity toward dense and nervy rhythmic experimentation and in the way their lyrics turn a cracked, distorted mirror at the world and its many absurdities. Like the Fall’s best records, Hypnotic Smack attacks the body and the brain simultaneously, your hips jerking uncontrollably to the robotic pulse of “You Climb the Sphynx” and “Club Music is the Soundtrack” while your brain chews the koan-like cud of lyrical nuggets such as “every boss in America is a real estate agent.” Ward’s cryptic lyrics reflect the psychedelic labyrinth of horrors that is your daily doomscroll, but it’s OK… we can still dance the night away to “Panopticon,” the goth club dance anthem no one predicted Knowso would write. The world is full of punk bands that are great at pummeling you, but Hypnotic Smack is the rare punk record that beguiles and entrances.

Recommended books, zines, and other reads

  • Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History Of American Hardcore Music book
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    $35.00
  • Street Struck graphic novel
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    $22.00
  • Cease And Desist flyer pack
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    zines
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    $15.00
  • Wasted Opportunities #17 zine
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    $6.00

new on la vida es un mus and sealed records

Ripcord: The Damage Is Done 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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Passion Killers: They Kill Our Passion With Their Hate and Wars 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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Lame: Lo Que Extrañas Ya No Existe 12"
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Nuclear Fear: Pantomime of Power 7” (PRE-ORDER)
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new arrivals

  • Traidora: Una Mujer Trans Sin País 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Las Ánimas Del Cuarto Obscuro: S/T 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Snooper: Worldwide 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
  • AFI: Silver Bleeds the Black Sun 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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  • Cancer: To The Gory End 12"
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  • The Sundays: Static & Silence 12"
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  • Bolt Thrower: For Victory 12"
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  • Smashing Pumpkins: Machina 12"
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  • Mac Demarco: Guitar 12"
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  • Deftones: Private Music 12"
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    $30.00

latest used items

  • Fleshgod Apocalypse: Mafia CD
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    used
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    $8.00
  • Live Burial: Curse Of The Forlorn CD
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  • Agrimonia: Rites Of Separation CD
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  • Rotting Christ: Sanctus Diavolos CD
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new on sorry state

Plasma: Mua Et Voi Omistaa 12"
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Fugitive Bubble: What Will Happen If We Stop? 12"
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The Hell: S/T 7"
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Subculture: Fred 12"
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