Minot serve up garage punk à la carte with “Walls / People Pleaser”: Two flavors, one frenzy.
Missoula’s own lo-fi kitchen punks Minot are back and sent this rather scrumptious 7-inch through our inbox, and this time they’re plating up a two-strut Lathe Cut that tastes like a migraine you’d happily get again. On Side A, “Walls” hits like being trapped in a fluorescent-lit cubicle with a fuzz pedal for company. Claustrophobic, catchy, and smeared with just enough grime to make you question your life choices. Chicken Wing’s vocals scrape against the walls they’re singing about, equal parts frustration and melodic doom.
Flip it over and “People Pleaser” slides in with a wink and a tremolo shimmer. Miss Saltine channels a ‘60s pop ghost who’s long overstayed her welcome at the sock hop. It’s sugary, sure, but there’s rot underneath, a perfect foil to Side A’s workplace despair. Junior Mint holds it all together from behind what sounds like the skeletal remains of a drum kit, proving that minimal gear doesn’t mean minimal punch.
Together, the two tracks feel like the before-and-after of a nervous breakdown: one clenched, one collapsing, both humming with that Montana-born, garage-stained honesty. Minot’s Walls / People Pleaser doesn’t just scratch an itch, it gives you a rash you’ll keep coming back to.
“People Pleaser 7-inch,” out now via Crush Grove
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