Baltimore has been producing some really cool noise rock in recent times, with bands like Ladypiss, The New Flesh and Multicult all bringing it loud, heavy and discordant. The latest addition to the Charm City scum-rock heap appears to be Special People, who pound away at a messy mix of choppy, lurching punk and jangly garage moves that gets nice n' damaged on their debut 7" Advertise.

It's a schizoid sound that these goons are peddling here. The a-side title track mixes up the band's penchant for softer, prettier verses with somewhat haunting singing drifting over the band's propulsive jangle, with a chunky chorus of howling fury and broken glass when the guitars stomp on the distortion pedals and crank 'em until they burn. This back-and-forth between the dark low-fi dreaminess and the mangled yowling of their Flipper-on-crack outbursts works like a charm gives this an always-welcome violent edge. The other song is "Eye Movement", which channels some grimy NYC-style pigfuck a la early Sonic Youth with those howling gang vocals and dark lurching riffs all doused in reverb, giving the song an almost gothic feel. Comparisons to Pissed Jeans, Clockcleaner, Homostupids, Slices and the like would not at all be out of place.

Comes in a hand-numbered sleeve with a vinyl sticker and xeroxed insert sheet, limited to two-hundred fifty copies.