"A hideous hardcore whiteout from these Aussie punx, who somehow manage to inject a frazzled sense of tye-dyed, magic-eye colouration into D-beat's monochromatic universe. Things grind away like soft meat being caught in a waste disposal unit, only to howl with bitter laughter at the tattered stump that's left behind. It's vicious and eye-clawingly deranged, raw as all mortal fuck and strangely outré despite the seemingly familiar template. If you dug 'Psychedelic Snutskallar' but fancied something a bit more wayward then, heck, this'll probably suit you down to the ground – just don't come babbling to me with the bill for any electroshock therapy you need as a result." – Alex Deller, Collective Zine

"Sorry State's Record of the Week is Geld's Perfect Texture LP! In stock and shipping now! This Australian band plays pretty much exactly the type of music I want to hear when I check out a new band on Iron Lung Records… in other words, they perfectly combine punch-you-in-the-gut hardcore with something a little artsier and ambitious. Geld are certainly a capable hardcore band, and they’re great at a range of different moves, from full-bore rage to the bouncy, danceable rhythms of bands like Bib or Blazing Eye to the wild, out-of-nowhere, Vinnie Stigma-esque guitar lead. But they’re just as, if not more, capable as noisy experimentalists, whether you’re talking about the little bits of minimal industrial music that pepper the album, their occasional use of weird, proggy rhythms, or the way they lay crazy noise textures over top of everything like Jackson Pollock slinging paint across a canvas. Perfect Texture is one of those records where every song takes you to a different place, but the whole thing hangs together as a cohesive statement. If you’re someone who wants and expects something more and something new from hardcore this is highly recommended listening." -Daniel Lupton, Sorry State Records

"Iron Lung reaches across the Pacific to bring us the debut album from Melbourne’s Geld. They might be new, but they’ve got dudes from d-beaters Krömosom and pub-rockers Power in their lineup, so it’s no surprise their first offering is fully matured and storming right out of the gate. Perfect Texture is solid stuff, a strain of violent and heavy hardcore that only a fool could find fault with. As I listen I’m frequently reminded of Nine Shocks Terror, particularly due to the buzzsaw riffing (and buzzsaw vocal delivery), but Geld mix things up a bit more than Nine Shocks ever did, integrating over-the-top effects (and even an electro-industrial instrumental segue) and leaning into black/thrash-metal motifs and Motörhead-style exhaust fumes on occasion. It’s top-shelf Japanese hardcore worship (I’m thinking Contrast Attitude and Zyanose), but they use it as a jumping off point for their own particular style as opposed to a direct rip (thankfully there are no song titles in purposely-butchered-English, a move I always found a little distasteful). Geld do a fine job of maintaining a direct assault without becoming overly repetitive, which is the key tightrope that any chaotic hardcore band must walk. Thumbs up!"
- Matt Korvette, YELLOW GREEN RED

"Owing to a demo that seemed to really make the rounds, member pedigree, and air-moving bill/festival dominance, Geld was the subject of whispered legend on the Melbourne HC scene shortly after forming 2-3 years back. Thanks to some high profile, on-location down under coverage by Noisey in 2016 that makes with witty ‘90s Clevo-core + ‘90s Japanese hypothetical sonic references, most of what’s been written about Geld (major uptick since arrival of Perfect Texture last month...see Stereogum pre-release blurb, etc) has followed this route through HC history and region. Well, I just performed a side-by-side ear-test with Perfect Texture and the H-100’s, and the gulf between former and latter, in purely musical terms, might as well be akin to what separates Jesu from Ride. That being the case, I do concur pretty hard with the comparison to Japan’s supernaturally-fertile and inventive HC contributions from the ‘90s (as well as the 80s and post-Y2K). There is no post-punk to be found in this noise, but there’s plenty of noise. A flange, reverb, and distortion (plus I’m sure some things that cannot be eardentified) setup is weaponized to amazing ends and is almost like a perfectly explosive and good HC band collaborating with Merzbow on $5 a day, scouring the inside of your skull like that last Impalers LP. High marks also go to Al Smith’s vocal style; a buried shriek of someone being chased through a windstorm by an unknown threat or wailing from inside a collapsed mine. Lastly, don’t let the rearview-dwelling imply that Perfect Texture isn’t a forward-thinking, boundary-insulting exercise in the context of right this moment, as that’s exactly what’s happening here. Interested parties, act now." - Andrew Earles, Still Single

"Iron Lung Records say that the songs on Geld’s debut LP Perfect Texture are about “suffering, vulnerability, paranoia and banality,” and the lyric sheet duly teems with creeps and scum and shit and fuckers and tripe (tripe!) – but, bloody Nora, this is a proper bad acid rinseout whatever the textual deal. Geld come from Melbourne, and a multifaceted punk scene that takes in – as regards its members’ other bands – pub rock, postpunk and D-beat crust fodder. The last of those, the great but defunct Krömosom, are the closest to what we get here, but Geld spike their noisepunk with huge shards of psychedelia, creating a sound that doesn’t so much swirl as splatter, like a kid misusing a hand blender. Songs are largely short, fast and nasty, y’know like hardcore is, but the effects pedals and bizarre sonic dustings are transformative and alien-sounding – take ‘Manic’, which starts off with a part that sounds more like some weird electro joint than anything made with a guitar, and a minute later is busting out a speed metal solo. (Specific credit to Cormac Ó Síocháin for that, the ex-Krömosom party who I pleasingly note was also a member of Scientific Bong, a shortlived thrash band with a running theme of being both Irish and constantly stoned.) Dunno if it’s a punx v hippies hangover that stops there being more bands who do what Geld are doing here, but Perfect Texture’s hardcore psych whiteout could have been made especially for me, and they’re following it right up with a 7-inch as well, the beauties." - Noel Gardner, The Quietus

"The Australian band Geld play an ugly, guttural, feverish form of hardcore, one that draws on the extremist mutations of the genre that have come from Cleveland and Japan. It’s the sort of thing where you won’t understand a single word that comes from the singer’s corroded throat, where it’s not entirely clear whether the guitarist is playing riffs or just making earsplitting noises. If you’re in the wrong mood, it’s excruciating. If you’re in the right mood, it’ll make you feel like you can juggle Jeep Grand Cherokees. The band put out a demo in 2016, and they’ve just come out with their brutal and sickening debut album Perfect Texture. (I don’t know why that album title seems so disgusting, but coming from this band, it really does.)" - Tom Breihan, Stereogum

"Once in a while, some music comes along that’s got a truly disturbing, possessed sound. It’s just raw enough that there’s something slightly unwholesome channeled through it that seems to communicate genuine scariness. For me, that tone typically comes as a side effect from hardcore punk and minimalist synth music rather than from bands that try to specifically evoke scary images. Australian band Geld, however, has a gift for horror. Their focused blasts feel organic, featuring an always audible shimmering ride cymbal, powerful riffs and wild flange-adjusted space echoes. And the songs are generally disquieting and unrelenting. It’s a pretty tense cocktail for such a brief record — a mixture that makes for one of the most effective embodiments of intense paranoia I’ve heard in a long time. Geld might be heavily influenced by Japanese hardcore bands. Japanese musicians are known for adding another level of intensity to the otherwise pretty excellent hardcore field, and that’s made them arguably the best at it. But Perfect Texture has a borderline psychedelic feel and enough raw punk flourishes that it stands apart, making this album excellent on its own merits." - Josh Vanek, Missoula Independent

"Melbourne band Geld's music has been described as “swirling psychedelic d-beat madness”, which is a pretty good summation of the band's ear-splitting and acid-spiked sound. Geld’s Perfect Texture album features corrosive vocals and abrasive guitars, and it bleeds buckets of weirdness as it mixes outright brutality with brain-frying noise. It's not that much of a surprise that Geld's forte is sanity-mangling ferocity, because the band's tangentially linked to the similarly mind-crushing Krömosom. That said, there are more warped melodies scattered about Perfect Texture than on any Krömosom release. Don’t get me wrong, Perfect Texture’s not overflowing with sweetened musicality. It’s a dark and schizophrenic album filled with ugly music and even uglier and more unbalanced scenes. But like plenty of bands from the Burning Spirit school of hardcore, Geld aren’t afraid to inject a sense of wild-eyed rock ’n’ roll insanity into their otherwise frenzied hardcore. I wouldn’t call the world Geld inhabit a fun-filled bonanza, but it's still endlessly entertaining listening to the band stitch together snarling songs that project outright hostility but still manage to dangle hooks and lure you in. Perfect Texture’s a feverishly crazed nightmare. Gleeful yet grim. An A-grade head-fuck all round." - Craig Hayes, Six Noises