s’got robert smith’s kohl schmeared clown mitts all over it has this. sounds like 1982 according to the myspace. indeed aye. sounds like it belongs more on sacred bones or captured tracks (who they released an ep with) alongside the likesof factums or blanks dogs rather than release the bats and alien8 but dammit i like to be surprised. not sex with an unexpected ladyboy, ryan adams does metal, mouse in fruit loaf surprised tho…
so yeah a band in the thrall of their influences. not meant pejoratively. but debts owed to death in june (via curtis, hook, morris and sumner) in that curiously english mix of postpunk and industrial and folk. except coated in a dusty american lo-fi film, a greasy gbv-esque muck, that on occasion brings to mind a cider-sticky cassette tape bootlegged rudimentary peni. personally i’d like to hear more of an esoteric shadow ring thang creep in, given that they’ve covered city lights and kindof swing in the same venn circles. maybe on the next one… but this bugger, judged by 12 consists of a buncha dirgy dingy clattering punk-length but half-speed numbers. all bony and wiry, all brittle calcified bones and a-rumbling beneath the cloak of dour menace. it’s more closer than unknown pleasures that’s for sure. all cavernous and brutalist and reverberously monochromatic. i like the drums mainly, and when grave and kay do a creepyish girl boy awkward duet. somebody somewhere is no doubt working on an appropriate –wave prefix.
vinyl edition of 525 copies on release the bats. cd release on alien 8 (includes the captured tracks 12″ tracks).
true true all true. modernally speaking though it does seem slightly incongruous. it is a real good album. but i still hate the cure. what does it all mean?
Well its not suprising that Release The Bats release this if you look on the labels early releases. Anyway, its a real good album!
true true all true. modernally speaking though it does seem slightly incongruous. it is a real good album. but i still hate the cure. what does it all mean?