Emerged from the heart of the Tokyo underground, Schedars are a five-piece band with an explosive sound rooted in the post-punk and no-wave aesthetic of early-80s Japan. Previously self-released in 2023 and now reissued on a worldwide scale through Spittle Made In Japan, this is their first full album, and the only contemporary entry in the series.

The record runs through a hyperactive blend of sharp, abrasive guitars, propulsive rhythms and unflinching vocal delivery. Tracks like Waste Site, Cold Storage and Paranoidea stake out the territory in unmistakable terms: jagged riffs, taut rhythm-section interplay, and a willingness to push tracks into stranger structural shapes than most contemporary post-punk bands manage. The bonus track Stroll closes the set on a slightly different register, suggesting that the band has more directions to pursue than the LP itself fully maps out.

A bracing reminder that the underground these reissues describe is not a closed historical chapter but a living continuum, and that the same scene that once produced Friction, Chance Operation and Mizutama Shobodan is still actively producing successors. Essential for anyone who wants the lineage to keep making sense.