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Albums Of The Week: Puffer | Street Hassle

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “This is not the end of a dark alleyway in some U.S. city, the bottom of a platform heel in England, or any other place you normally find rock ’n’ roll.

This is Quebec: A different sensory perception of rock ’n’ roll. A heightened awareness of the highest highs and the lowest lows. This is Belgium with snowmobiles. Catholic Texas. Ugly France. All the crumbling highways, the coldest beers, and the loudest joints. Guitars do different things in Quebec.

Puffer shimmy across the invisible barricade between Montreal and the rest of the world, not just as another crop of punks but as the great descendants and inheritors of modern greats like Inepsy’s Rock and Roll Babylon and Annihilation Time’s II. Loud, brash, unrelenting. You’ll go deaf before you get bored of it.

Self produced, self recorded, and mixed by the band, this is the new vanguard of the punk sound that has lived long beyond its moments of origin. This pure blast of 1979 by way of the hellish Weimar end-times of 2025 has made the necessity of punk rock feel real yet again.

For fans of: Slaughter And The Dogs, The 222s, The Discords, Motörhead, Inepsy, AA Restaurant, Montreal Pool Room, Katacombes and the eternal flame of punk in La Belle Province.”