Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Perks
Late last week I received a bunch of free shit from Liquid Death / Hello Pussy Records, a sterling little label from Cincinnati that specializes in the sort of retardo noise nonsense eschewed by those with more refined and dignified tastes. I haven’t had a chance to listen to everything yet, but what I have heard has been pretty damn close to amazement. The Hair Police/Crystal Fantasy split ten-inch, in particular, is quite excellent. Crystal Fantasy’s ridiculous mini electro-pop opera sounds pretty much exactly like the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth, but with some kinda lady speaking in a pseudo-British accent instead of, well, me. It’s like the Apes’ last record, but with more interesting music and a more arbitrary and incomprehensible storyline (which, of course, makes it substantially more awesome). And Hair Police’s side-long noise anti-epic reminded me of that Black Dice ten-inch from three years back or so. Of course I’ve only listened to about three of the Hair Police track’s nine minutes, so I could be horrifically off-base with that assessment. The one distracted listen I’ve given to the My Name is Rar Rar/Neon Hunk split single has lead me to believe that that will be fairly righteous as well. I’ll have full reviews of this stuff up at DOA eventually, I suppose. But these folks from the Queen City certainly do some fine work.
Late last week I received a bunch of free shit from Liquid Death / Hello Pussy Records, a sterling little label from Cincinnati that specializes in the sort of retardo noise nonsense eschewed by those with more refined and dignified tastes. I haven’t had a chance to listen to everything yet, but what I have heard has been pretty damn close to amazement. The Hair Police/Crystal Fantasy split ten-inch, in particular, is quite excellent. Crystal Fantasy’s ridiculous mini electro-pop opera sounds pretty much exactly like the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth, but with some kinda lady speaking in a pseudo-British accent instead of, well, me. It’s like the Apes’ last record, but with more interesting music and a more arbitrary and incomprehensible storyline (which, of course, makes it substantially more awesome). And Hair Police’s side-long noise anti-epic reminded me of that Black Dice ten-inch from three years back or so. Of course I’ve only listened to about three of the Hair Police track’s nine minutes, so I could be horrifically off-base with that assessment. The one distracted listen I’ve given to the My Name is Rar Rar/Neon Hunk split single has lead me to believe that that will be fairly righteous as well. I’ll have full reviews of this stuff up at DOA eventually, I suppose. But these folks from the Queen City certainly do some fine work.
