Feedback wails, polyrhythmic pounding, and distorted chords compose the basic building blocks of Boss Eye’s fractured trash rock. Add creepy synth stabs and vocals harmonized like cats yowling, and it’s a party. These brief blasts of barely structured noise by members of the Crack Pipes, Attack Formation, Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee, and other local scree punks sound like they were a blast to formulate and even more fun to record. From the abstract poetry of “More Than a Kiss” to the anthemic temper tantrum “You’ve Gone Too Far,” the Austin quintet joyfully turns skronk into barroom sing-alongs.

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This article appears in February 26 • 2016.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.