Famous Mammals - s/t LP [Inscrutable]

Fantastic SF bedroom garage pop on Martin Meyer (Lumpy & the Dumpers, Lumpy Records)'s new INSCRUTABLE label! See more on this great label here!DEAL: Buy more than one Inscrutable Record, get 10% off each one! Famous Mammals were already going to be fantastic the moment they decided to form as a pandemic avocation in 2020, considering they’d been birthed from the flames of recent Oakland, CA scene-definers Rays, The World and Andy Human & The Reptoids. Yet when their wonderfully sharp & confounding self-titled tape came out in 2021, they were better than that, even. Their initial sound clicked along, searched and then found oblique treasure in a deep DIY post-punk void one might associate with 39 Clocks or the Swell Maps - sometimes aggressively sharp and pointed, other times given to captivating and off-centered murky quaalude meandering in all the ways you love. I’m a big fan of Stanley Martinez’ vocals and guitar, and have been since the first time I saw & heard R