Battlebeats - Search & Destroy [IMPORT Indonesia Punk] – New LP

While I'm careful not to believe what I read, it seems that Indonesia came relatively late in embracing punk, but once they grabbed it, they grabbed it with both hands and often have an honesty and awkwardness that recalls the early development of punk scenes in other places, getting it right and even when they might get it wrong it just makes it more right for me.  I've always been obsessed with punk from other lands, with Indonesia in the past few years so I was hyped to hear that Alien Snatch might have caught the same bug and released this set from Battlebeats, chock full of pissed off and who-cares happy snotty rockers and garage rock n roll numbers, not sounding like the garage freak beat of the 1960s but in some ways sort of recalling 1965 when neighborhood bands in Ohio and New Zealand were maybe as much inspired by the 1950s as British Invasion, this band picking up some Cochran, boogaloo, and Berry from 1950s but shot through the East Coast underground and West Coast punk