EXPRESSWAY YO-YO DIETING Bubblethug (Weird Forest) 2lp 30.00
Most folks probably know Pat Maherr (if they know the name at all) as the man behind Indignant Senility, whose Caretaker like vinyl manipulations and alterations has us smitten, his Plays Wagner found him taking old dusty record of Wagner symphonies and operas and processing them and running them through filters and twisting them all up and layering them into gorgeous washed out ephemeral ambience. But apparently when Maherr is not manipulating old classical records and crafting strangely baroque ambience, he has a bit of a thing for hip hop. And not just ANY hip hop, no the strain of hip hop affectionately referred to as 'chopped & screwed', named for the late great DJ Screw, who would take popular rap records and slow em way down, creating something way more druggy and tripped out, the perfect soundtrack for sipping sizurp, a distinctly Southern concoction which involves mixing cough syrup with soda, and sometimes Jolly Ranchers!
Maherr adopted the bizarre pseudonym Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting for his own experiments with screwed hip hop. And as if you even needed to be told, this shit is WAY more tweaked and warped, not just slowed down, but all twisted up, the beats pulled apart, the voices all messed up, the originals totally unrecognizable, the result of Maherr's manipulations, is some woozy, warbly, warped electronic lurch and lumber, the voices syrupy and moan-some, the beats, crackly and skittery, all the other sounds blurred and smeared into strange shapes, weird textures. It sounds a lot like an Indignant Senility hip hop remix, or a bit like how you might imagine it would feel to down extensive quantities of horse tranquilizers and super potent acid, before floating in a swimming pool in the middle of the night listening to KMEL or WILD 94.9 on a seriously booming system, with your ears just under the surface of the water. Totally wacked and demented and tripped out and awesome. Not necessarily for hip hop heads, but for anyone into druggy beats and fiercely fucked up weirdness.
MPEG Stream: "oNe"
MPEG Stream: "tWo"
MPEG Stream: "tHrEe"

EXRAY'S Ammunition Teeth (Howells Transmitter) cassette 9.98
Debut release from local lo-fi minimal bedroom synth poppers Exray's, and it comes in the form of one of the most lavishly packaged cassette tapes we've seen in AGES.
Born of now defunct SF twang-flecked classic rock / folk combo Ray's Vast Basement, the Exray's duo, craft short sharp slabs of synth soaked minimal pop, the keyboards wheezing and shimmering, the programmed rhythms sparse and skeletal, the vocals weary and laid back, the Sparklehorse vibe of RVB still in full effect, but here cast more in the form of the woozy, languid vocalizing, which perfectly balances the warm mechanical pop, which itself is rife with little bits of twang, and classic FM radio melodies, while the sound itself shifts from crisp and cool, to warm and wonderfully muted and murky, an ever shifting blend of classic pop/rock songsmithery and home brewed electronics, the sound dusty and worn, dreamy and sun dappled, an old timey vision of the future, modern music crafted through unmodern means, really really cool
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Each one hand numbered. The J-card full color, spray painted metallic silver on the outside, and elaborately lazer cut, leaving all sorts of geometric cut outs, revealing different colors and panels, includes a tiny triangle insert with the link to an mp3 download.

EXTINCTION Down Below The Fog (Todestrieb) cd 13.98
The last Extinction record, long sold out before we were able to get any copies for the store, was one of those bleak ambient non-metal metal records. Slow motion expanses of utter abject black dirgedrone doom. A tarpit sludge full of smears of black guitar and demonic shrieks. Think Abruptum, Stalaggh, Emit and other like minded black ambient artists.
So that's sort of what we were expecting when we managed to get this new Extinction. And the opening track had us convinced we were right. A chaotic stumbling storm of angular guitars, huge crumbling downtuned riffs, howled and moaned vocals, huge rhythmic pounds, super demented and damaged sounding. We were prepared to settle back for a whole record of similar sounding black bliss. But the second track knocked us flat, exploding into a lurching minor key stumble, with strange arpeggiated guitars, thrashing drums, raspy black vocals, but all of those typically black metal elements are set in a swirling black morass of blown out, super saturated black sonic clouds. So dense and blurry and fuzzed out it's sometimes impossible to pick out individual instruments, just a massive fiery be-spiked and bloodied blur. The rest of the record barrels along like that, some epic hooved black metal beast, huge bat wings flung behind it, teeth crusted with the blood of the vanquished, an ultra thick onslaught of pure demonic black energy. We haven't heard a black metal so distorted and so dangerously close to collapsing into utter and complete noise since Gorgoroth's The Destroyer. And that is mighty praise indeed.
The final track revisits the opener's sonic black pit of teeth gnashing and shrieking souls, another abstract swirl of deconstructed black chaos with collapsing riffs and slowly rotting melodies.
So fucking great.
MPEG Stream: "The Fusion Of Blood And Fire"
MPEG Stream: "Down Below The Fog"
MPEG Stream: "In The Shadow Of The Moon"

EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND Live On Stubnitz (self-released) cd-r 9.99
Take the brass of Eastern European group Fanfare Ciocarila, throw in a healthy dose of Test Dept. circa A Good Night Out, turn the punk rock knob up to ten and what do you get? Why San Francisco's very own inimitable Extra Action Marching Band. While we've been lucky enough to enjoy them here live for a few years now, a recording to share with our geographically challenged customers has been a long time coming. The twelve tracks on this disc were recorded live on the Motorship Stubnitz in July of 2004 while the band was on a European tour. A German ship built in 1964 and purchased by Swiss idealist Urs Blaser, the Stubnitz now serves as a floating cultural center and includes in its berth art studios, labs, workshops, two performance venues and a recording studio. Like any self respectin marching band, the Extra Action's core repertoire are arrangements of "popular" tunes for brass and drums, only the tunes they choose to cover are perhaps a little more esoteric than your average marching band. The theme to "Enter The Dragon", and "Lucky Seven" from Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke and (maybe not that obscure, but a fucking great arrangement none the less) Black Sabbath's "The Wizard". A definite must have for fans of those popular Poly High and Schoolhouse Funk comps!
MPEG Stream: "Black Chicken"
MPEG Stream: "The Wizard"

EXTRA GLENNS, THE Martial Arts Weekend (Absolutely Kosher) cd 13.98
The Extra Glenns is two musicians near and dear to Aquarius' heart: John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats and Franklin Bruno (Nothing Painted Blue and an esteemed solo artist). Together they've brought their li'l side project Extra Glenns to full fruition with these here debut full length. And it's a doozy. The main flavor here is vintage Mountain Goats style -- the stark, half-spoken vocals, the energetic acoustic guitar strumming. Yet with collaborator Bruno the sound is so much fuller and delightfully sonically interesting. With each MG album Darnielle adds embellishments to his sound -- for example, on 'Nothing for Juice' it was Alastair Galbraith's violin -- and this time it's the sound of Bruno's sprightly piano, flawless electric guitar, and evident hands-on influence in the songwriting. In fact it would be unfair to call Bruno's work embellishments; this album is a fully realized collaboration, with lovely duelling guitar work, smart arrangements, and even an inspired (albeit weird 'til you get used to it) Leonard Cohen cover... and I think it's some of the best work either of these two have ever done.
RealAudio clip: "Going to Marrakesh"
RealAudio clip: "Terminal Grain"
RealAudio clip: "Twelve Hands High"

EXTRA GOLDEN Ok-Oyot System (Thrill Jockey) cd 14.98

EXTRA LENS Undercard (Merge) cd 14.98
Mountain Goats alert!! Mountain Goats alert!! Fans, you don't want to miss this wonderful new full length starring MG main man John Darnielle and his tuneful comrade Nothing Painted Blue's Franklin Bruno. They have decided to shed a couple of letters in the moniker of their collaborative project. They are no longer Extra Glenns, they are now Extra Lens. Not sure why, maybe they visited an optometrist recently?! But at any rate, their recording approach hasn't changed and the musical output of their combined forces still sounds terrific. Darnielle first writes and records his trademark speak-sing vocals and folksy guitar. Then, Bruno steps in to arrange and embellish his heart out - and he does it ever so tastily and tastefully, never obscuring the trademark wistful ache of Darnielle's voice which is always the focal point. In the ensuing years since their fine 2002 debut Martial Arts Weekend, Darnielle's own music has become much more fleshed out and considerably more elaborate than his barebones early works. So these days it actually more closely resembles that of Extra Lens. Definitely check out the hushed sock-you-in-the-heart "Cruiserweights" and "Programmed Cell Death". Sure to delight his legions of admirers!
For those not savvy with sports terminology, "undercard" refers to the preliminary rounds in series of matches leading up to the final main event. On the cover, there is a vacant boxing ring. We aren't certain if it is pre-match or post-match... or who was the victor. However, we think it's safe to say though that no punches were likely thrown between Bruno and Darnielle in the making of this album. Ha ha! Together they shine in each of its dozen flourishing folk pop numbers... and it is the listener who is ultimately the winner. Recommended!
MPEG Stream: "Cruiserweights"
MPEG Stream: "Programmed Cell Death"
MPEG Stream: "Rockin' Rockin' Twilight Of The Gods"

EXTRA LENS Undercard (Merge) lp 17.98
Mountain Goats alert!! Mountain Goats alert!! Fans, you don't want to miss this wonderful new full length starring MG main man John Darnielle and his tuneful comrade Nothing Painted Blue's Franklin Bruno. They have decided to shed a couple of letters in the moniker of their collaborative project. They are no longer Extra Glenns, they are now Extra Lens. Not sure why, maybe they visited an optometrist recently?! But at any rate, their recording approach hasn't changed and the musical output of their combined forces still sounds terrific. Darnielle first writes and records his trademark speak-sing vocals and folksy guitar. Then, Bruno steps in to arrange and embellish his heart out - and he does it ever so tastily and tastefully, never obscuring the trademark wistful ache of Darnielle's voice which is always the focal point. In the ensuing years since their fine 2002 debut Martial Arts Weekend, Darnielle's own music has become much more fleshed out and considerably more elaborate than his barebones early works. So these days it actually more closely resembles that of Extra Lens. Definitely check out the hushed sock-you-in-the-heart "Cruiserweights" and "Programmed Cell Death". Sure to delight his legions of admirers!
For those not savvy with sports terminology, "undercard" refers to the preliminary rounds in series of matches leading up to the final main event. On the cover, there is a vacant boxing ring. We aren't certain if it is pre-match or post-match... or who was the victor. However, we think it's safe to say though that no punches were likely thrown between Bruno and Darnielle in the making of this album. Ha ha! Together they shine in each of its dozen flourishing folk pop numbers... and it is the listener who is ultimately the winner. Recommended!
MPEG Stream: "Cruiserweights"
MPEG Stream: "Programmed Cell Death"
MPEG Stream: "Rockin' Rockin' Twilight Of The Gods"

EXTRADITION Hush (Vicious Sloth Collectibles) cd 24.00
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Extradition were an obscure early seventies Australian psych-folk group very much influenced by the British Folk revival, in particular, Fairport Convention and Pentangle. Fronted by singer, Shayna Karlin, whose high timbre voice falls somewhere between Pentangle's Jaqui McShee and June Tabor, and multi-instrumentalist and sometimes singer Colin Campbell, who wrote most of the bands material. What sets them apart is how they shade their haunting and graceful compositions with an adventurous use of natural elements as instruments including leaves, branches, water, sticks and stones along with more exotic instrumentation of Chinese and Turkish gongs, harmonium, harpsichord, tablas and a Lebanese bell tree. This creates a more alchemical binding of music and nature that transports us to another place rather than grounding us in a traditional past. This cd contains the whole of their lone 1971 album plus six bonus live tracks including covers of Tom Paxton's "Hold On To Me, Babe" and Leroy Carr's "In the Evening" which was also covered by Karen Dalton. Beautiful!
MPEG Stream: "Original Whim"
MPEG Stream: "Minuet"
MPEG Stream: "A Moonsong"

EXTRADITION Hush (Guerssen) lp 29.00
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Now On Vinyl!! Here's what we said about the cd: Extradition were an obscure early seventies Australian psych-folk group very much influenced by the British Folk revival, in particular, Fairport Convention and Pentangle. (They later regrouped into the band Tully, whose Surf film soundtrack, Sea Of Joy, we raved about last list.) Fronted by singer, Shayna Karlin, whose high timbre voice falls somewhere between Pentangle's Jaqui McShee and June Tabor, and multi-instrumentalist and sometimes singer Colin Campbell, who wrote most of the bands material. What sets them apart is how they shade their haunting and graceful compositions with an adventurous use of natural elements as instruments including leaves, branches, water, sticks and stones along with more exotic instrumentation of Chinese and Turkish gongs, harmonium, harpsichord, tablas and a Lebanese bell tree. This creates a more alchemical binding of music and nature that transports us to another place rather than grounding us in a traditional past. Beautiful!
MPEG Stream: "Original Whim"
MPEG Stream: "Minuet"
MPEG Stream: "A Moonsong"

EXTREME NOISE TERROR Being and Nothing (Candlelight) cd 15.98
Crushing and totally heavy new record from these good-old-days pioneers of grind. I mean these guys have been around as long as Napalm Death and Carcass and have never gotten nearly the recognition think they deserve. They were definitly more on the crusty punk side of things than say, Carcass, but they have always been solid purveyors of grindcore/metal. This new record finds them with a bit of a new line up (including an ex-member of Cradle of Filth) and it is fantastic. Totally pummelling and ultra heavy grind, with definite death metal moments. With crushing high-end ear shredding production and a surprising amount of super catchy riffs (especially for a grind band).
RealAudio clip: "Being And Nothing"
RealAudio clip: "Man Made Hell"

EXUMA s/t (Repertoire) cd 24.00
1970 voodoo groove, amazing.

EXXASENS Polaris (ConSouling Sounds) cd-r 11.98
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For a while there, Belgian label NOTHingness was one of our favorite sources for grim droning black ambience. Pretty much everything they released was fantastic. Well, NOTHingness sadly is no more, but in it's place, has risen Consouling Sounds, a new label focusing less on dark ambient and dronemusic and more on post rock, space rock and drone rock, with a distinct focus on up and coming unknown artists. The label is split into two distinct entities. They recently released the Bungled & The Botched cd from Nadja (now out of print, sorry) via the 'Soul' imprint, home for established acts, and this, the debut from Spanish metallic post rockers Exxasens is the first release in their 'Con ' series, limited cd-r releases of unknown bands, offering people an inexpensive chance to check out some new sounds.Ê
As mentioned above, these particular sounds come via Spain, and the weirdly named Exxasens, who while choosing a somewhat overpopulated style, do manage to do their own thing. Their sound while definitely rocking, is more on the math/post side of things than the metal, at their heaviest, they sound like a lighter Isis or maybe more like a slightly more metal Mogwai, and those heavy parts soar more than pummel, but they balance well with the more loping introspective bits. Regardless, math rockers and post rockers will definitely be in heaven, these guys certainly push all the right buttons, the drumming is intricate and mathy with some intense squalls of rapid fire double kick, the guitars ring out, chiming majestically, there also seems to be some sort of keyboard action, or perhaps that's just some extra guitars, either way, it adds all sorts of texture to the proceedings. There are some cool production tape speed tricks, a bunch of samples, but of course no vocals, this is all instrumental, every track rife with slow building elaborate arrangements, epic melodies, and some killer chops, as well as a flair for crafting some subtly catchy tunes.Ê
Explosions In The Sky, Pelican, Isis, Mogwai, Mono, Irepress, Souvenir's Young America, if that reads like your iTunes library, then, you probably will want to pick this up too...
Packaged in a cd sized dvd style plastic sleeve, with a full color insert. LIMITED TO 170 COPIES in two editions, both already sold out, so these are the very last copies.
MPEG Stream: "Polaris"
MPEG Stream: "Your Dreams Are My Dreams"
MPEG Stream: "Blue Space"

EYE Center Of The Sun (Kemado) lp 16.98
This is the first we've heard from this Ohio psychedelic prog rock combo, whose sound the label compares to King Crimson and Pink Floyd, and which we're pleased to report is really not all that far off the mark, although the group take that classic prog sound and filter it through a much more modern sound, adding some serious guitar crunch, instrumental heft and some dense tripped out production. But that said, at its core, this stuff sounds pretty classic seventies prog, with soaring strings and epic synths, serious, properly sung vocals, dizzying solos, incredible harmonies, intricate arrangements, and of course loooooong songs.
Just check out the record opener, which takes up all of side A, a nearly twenty minute four part song suite called "Center Of The Sun", that channels Magma and ELP as much as it does Mugstar and White Hills. In fact the abundant progisms should definitely not keep all you space rock and psych rock freeks from digging into this stuff, cuz it most certainly IS both space-y and psychedelic, but instead of the usual endless jamming, these guys fuse killer jams, to actual songs, sprawling EPIC songs, "Center Of The Sun" being the best example, the band slipping easily from old school proto-metal sounding crunch, to dizzying mathy space-prog workouts, some cool classic rock bits, some shredding lead guitar, and some full on heart-of-the-sun space-psych freakouts, tempered with woozy washed out folk flecked drifts, and all somehow deftly woven into a seriously rad modern prog rock epic.
The three shorter tracks on the B side are equally heavy, and proggy, and intricate, killer riffing, busy drumming, weird arrangements, some soaring synths, lots of mathed out rhythms, gorgeous lush textures, and still more killer guitar jams, not to mention FX galore, definitely the sort of thing that should appeal to fans of the current crop of psychedelic space rock, and folks like us, who find little to love in modern prog. And while you don't have to love prog to dig these guys, it definitely doesn't hurt.
Includes a download code! LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, each one hand numbered!
MPEG Stream: "Center Of The Sun Parts 1-4"
MPEG Stream: "Usurpers"

EYE s/t (CMR) cd-r + lathe cut 7" 10.00
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We won't go into too much detail with these as we only got a tiny handful of each. Latest batch of ultra limited lathe cuts from New Zealand label CMR. Each one packaged in a super striking, simple cardstock jacket, most with printed inner sleeves, Limited to 60 copies, of which we got the remaining stock. Once these are gone, they are gone forever.
We had never heard Eye before, but they seem to be the new outfit of NZ underground luminary Peter Stapleton (Flies Inside The Sun, Sleep, A Handful Of Dust) and no surprise, fans of any of his past work will for sure dig this.
The 7" is a crumbling soundscape of shortwave interference, wavering tones, constantly shifting drones, all very sea sick and dizzy sounding, bits of whispery static, all swaddled in a thick buzz, with lots of strange effects, and what sounds like the hiss and whisper of an army of ghosts that builds and builds to a fever pitch.
The flipside is more of an old school NZ freerock jam, all tribal rhythms under a swirling sea of fuzz and distortion and bits of skree. Layer after layer of constantly shifting grit and grime, propulsive and blown out, but still sort of shimmery and almost ambient.
This lathe cut comes with a cd-r, which contains a single 38 minute track, more glorious abstract soundscaping, bits of rhythms here and there, lots of buzz and hiss, strange disembodied melodies, lo-fi and constantly shifting and drifting, eventually building into a seriously heavy fuzzed out jam, complete with strange horns and bursts of random musical snippets. Cool.

EYE WEOOEM (P.A.M.) book 14.98
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Okay, Bore-fanatics, we only have a handful of these and we will NOT be getting more. A brand new book of original art from Boredoms frontman Eye Yamataka, in the style of the graphics of all the many Boredoms and related (UFO or Die, DJ Hellshit & MC Carhouse, DJ Pica Pica Pica etc.) releases over the years. All the colorful, splattery, scribbly, chaotic collaged weirdness we've come to love! It's kinda like children's art, by a very punk rock little kid, on drugs. Eye's "Bore Flag" logo is a repeated motif. Released through Australian imprint P.A.M., these are gorgeous full color 36 page perfect bound books, 5 1/2" by 8 1/2", quite cool. And again: EXTREMELY LIMITED. Once this batch is gone, they are gone for good!

EYE / ZORN DUO John Zorn 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 10 (Tzadik) cd 15.98

EYEBALLS The Invisible Castle (Blackest Rainbow) cd 16.98

EYEHATEGOD 10 Years of Abuse (Century Media) cd 14.98
Celebrating a decade of their doomier/uglier/more fucked up than thou sludgy, Sabbathy metalcore, New Orleans favorites EyeHateGod serve up their first offical live album. Includes four previously unreleased demo tracks (1990), four live-in-the-studio tracks from a 1990 radio show, and eight live songs recorded on their 2000 European tour.
Live albums are not always essential purchases, even for devoted fans (like we are of EHG), but this one definitely captures the band's particular (peculiar) genius. And if you didn't already know who it was, you could mistake portions of this for a Brainbombs record, with EHG's trademark solid state feedback filling in for the trumpet sounds (at least I did, for a moment, when it was playing in the store. But then, for a second I also thought it was Abruptum or something, as the vocals are much more akin to a black metal croak). But the damaged Sabbathy swing is unmistakable, and the feedback sound IS EHG.

EYEHATEGOD Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Century Media) cd 14.98
The New Orleans dirge masters return! After their recent singles compilation, this rejuvenated doomcore band has mananged to put together a new album, their fourth, and first in years! And it's good old ugly Southern Sabbathy swingin' stoner sludge metal with lots of lyrical/throat brutality, just like they more-or-less invented back on "In The Name of Suffering" in '92. Not to be fucked with.

EYEHATEGOD Dopesick (Century Media) cd 12.98
We've referenced these drugged and ugly New Orleans masters of sludge-core in tons of reviews, as they're one of the ur-bands that established the rituals practiced by anyone heavy and feedback laden, like Moss, Bunkur, Boris, Dot [.], Cavity, Corrupted, Khanate, Iron Monkey, Grief, Wellington, Acid Bath, Garadama, etc.
So we were so psyched to discover that EHG's first three discs were getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Elsewhere on this list we review In The Name Of Suffering, most people's fave EHG record, their third, Take As Needed For Pain, Andee's favorite, and this, Dopesick, their third, and part three of final EHG's godlike sludge trilogy. They would continue to make records, great records in fact, but the first three remain untouchable to this day.
In The Name Of Suffering was a hateful, feedback drenched trawl through a world of sludge, creeping and slithering, uncompromisingly brutal and crushingly heavy. Pretty much defining the sound of ALL sludge to come. With record number 2, Take As Needed For Pain, they added a little bit of that NOLA groove (you know, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Acid Bath, Crowbar, Soilent Green, Goatwhore, etc.) to their sound, making their plodding shrieking sludge a tiny bit more melodic and dare we say, catchy at moments. But take that with a grain of salt, melodic and catchy for a band like Eyehategod is still about a million times more caustic and corrosive than almost any other -heavy- band.
So with Dopesick, the groove factor is cranked up a little bit more, making Eyehategod here sound like the scariest, heaviest, druggiest, sludgiest stoner rock band EVER. But again, EHG in stoner rock mode, still outsludges them all, a groove flecked avalanche of slow motion ultradoom, screeching feedback, shrieking throat ripping vocals, blackhole downtuned guitars, all churning in a black sea of sludgemetal tar, lurching, and trudging and so fucking awesome!
Three bonus tracks: two alternate versions and one the appropriately titled "Dopesick Jam", an epic, lengthy freaked out psychedelic slab of glorious drugsludgedoom! Includes revised artwork and new liner notes from EHG frontman Mike Williams.
MPEG Stream: "My Name Is God (I Hate You)"
MPEG Stream: "Ruptured Heart Theory"

EYEHATEGOD Dopesick (Emetic Records) 2lp 24.00
NOW ON VINYL!
We've referenced these drugged and ugly New Orleans masters of sludge-core in tons of reviews, as they're one of the ur-bands that established the rituals practiced by anyone heavy and feedback laden, like Moss, Bunkur, Boris, Dot [.], Cavity, Corrupted, Khanate, Iron Monkey, Grief, Wellington, Acid Bath, Garadama, etc.
So we were so psyched to discover that EHG's first three discs were getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Elsewhere on this list we review In The Name Of Suffering, most people's fave EHG record, their third, Take As Needed For Pain, Andee's favorite, and this, Dopesick, their third, and part three of final EHG's godlike sludge trilogy. They would continue to make records, great records in fact, but the first three remain untouchable to this day.
In The Name Of Suffering was a hateful, feedback drenched trawl through a world of sludge, creeping and slithering, uncompromisingly brutal and crushingly heavy. Pretty much defining the sound of ALL sludge to come. With record number 2, Take As Needed For Pain, they added a little bit of that NOLA groove (you know, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Acid Bath, Crowbar, Soilent Green, Goatwhore, etc.) to their sound, making their plodding shrieking sludge a tiny bit more melodic and dare we say, catchy at moments. But take that with a grain of salt, melodic and catchy for a band like Eyehategod is still about a million times more caustic and corrosive than almost any other -heavy- band.
So with Dopesick, the groove factor is cranked up a little bit more, making Eyehategod here sound like the scariest, heaviest, druggiest, sludgiest stoner rock band EVER. But again, EHG in stoner rock mode, still outsludges them all, a groove flecked avalanche of slow motion ultradoom, screeching feedback, shrieking throat ripping vocals, blackhole downtuned guitars, all churning in a black sea of sludgemetal tar, lurching, and trudging and so fucking awesome!
Three bonus tracks: two alternate versions and one the appropriately titled "Dopesick Jam", an epic, lengthy freaked out psychedelic slab of glorious drugsludgedoom! Includes revised artwork and new liner notes from EHG frontman Mike Williams.
MPEG Stream: "My Name Is God (I Hate You)"
MPEG Stream: "Ruptured Heart Theory"

EYEHATEGOD In The Name Of Suffering (Century Media) cd 12.98
We've referenced these drugged and ugly New Orleans masters of sludge-core in tons of reviews, as they're one of the ur-bands that established the rituals practiced by anyone heavy and feedback laden, like Moss, Bunkur, Boris, Dot [.], Cavity, Corrupted, Khanate, Iron Monkey, Grief, Wellington, Acid Bath, Garadama, etc.
So we were so psyched to discover that EHG's first three discs were getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Elsewhere on this list we review their second album, Take As Needed For Pain, and Dopesick, their third, and part three of final EHG's godlike sludge trilogy. They would continue to make records, great records in fact, but the first three remain untouchable to this day.
Here's Allan's favorite EHG album (Andee's favorite is Take As Needed For Pain, but this is a close second!), their dark and dirgey debut In The Name Of Suffering, first released in 1990 on the French Intellectual Convulsion label, later re-issued domestically by Century Media, with the original's gross medical cover pictures prudently tucked inside now reissued again, with new liner notes and bonus tracks. When this came out, EHG immediately joined the Melvins, Skullflower, and Hellhammer in the pantheon of the heaviest, most fucked up bands ever. Misanthropic metallic misery, complete with samples of Charles Manson's wisdom. Later EHG albums are good too, but this one was may quite possible be their finest moment. If you are one of Aquarius' "doom" customers and you don't have this disc, we urge you, in the name of suffering, get it!
Extra stuff: Four bonus tracks taken from an unreleased 1990 demo, revised artwork and new liner notes from EHG frontman Mike Williams.
MPEG Stream: "Depress"
MPEG Stream: "Children Of God"
MPEG Stream: "Hit A Girl"

EYEHATEGOD In The Name Of Suffering (Emetic Records) 2lp 21.00
NOW ON VINYL!!
We've referenced these drugged and ugly New Orleans masters of sludge-core in tons of reviews, as they're one of the ur-bands that established the rituals practiced by anyone heavy and feedback laden, like Moss, Bunkur, Boris, Dot [.], Cavity, Corrupted, Khanate, Iron Monkey, Grief, Wellington, Acid Bath, Garadama, etc.
So we were so psyched to discover that EHG's first three discs were getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Elsewhere on this list we review their second album, Take As Needed For Pain, and Dopesick, their third, and part three of final EHG's godlike sludge trilogy. They would continue to make records, great records in fact, but the first three remain untouchable to this day.
Here's Allan's favorite EHG album (Andee's favorite is Take As Needed For Pain, but this is a close second!), their dark and dirgey debut In The Name Of Suffering, first released in 1990 on the French Intellectual Convulsion label, later re-issued domestically by Century Media, with the original's gross medical cover pictures prudently tucked inside now reissued again, with new liner notes and bonus tracks. When this came out, EHG immediately joined the Melvins, Skullflower, and Hellhammer in the pantheon of the heaviest, most fucked up bands ever. Misanthropic metallic misery, complete with samples of Charles Manson's wisdom. Later EHG albums are good too, but this one was may quite possible be their finest moment. If you are one of Aquarius' "doom" customers and you don't have this disc, we urge you, in the name of suffering, get it!
Extra stuff: Four bonus tracks taken from an unreleased 1990 demo, revised artwork and new liner notes from EHG frontman Mike Williams.
MPEG Stream: "Depress"
MPEG Stream: "Children Of God"
MPEG Stream: "Hit A Girl"

EYEHATEGOD Preaching The "End-Time" Message (Emetic Records) cd 14.98
We're not gonna get into how the "Southern Nihilism" message of misery preached by NOLA's EYEHATEGOD has perhaps been made all too real for all too many by the disaster of Hurricane Katrina and its messed up aftermath that nature and man (and perhaps the entity incorporated into the band's name?) visited upon their hometown and surrounding Gulf Coast region. Geez. "End-Time" message indeed.
Fortunately, you can't keep a good doom band down, however far into the filth they've fallen, as the long-running, long-suffering EHG has proven time and time again, always breaking up, going to jail, playing their last ever gig or releasing their last ever disc but then eventually getting back on (or should we say off?) the horse again and coming back with some more Sabbathy sludgecore for us to enjoy... Last year we listed what was supposed to be their swansong single and now here they are raising their collective ugly head again with this cd. True, it's not a full studio album, though it seems one's in the works (or was, before Katrina). Hope it still is when they get back to what passes for normal for them down in Louisiana. Meanwhile, we have the disc at hand. It's in fact the third one they've released that falls into the category of being a collection of rarities as opposed to an "actual" album. But EHG fans take what they can get. What you get here is some fairly crucial EHG stuff -- an old comp track, their song from the Gummo soundtrack (hey just like Absu!), a couple of live-in-Japan cuts, tracks taken from various split singles that EHG shared with the Cripple Bastards, Soilent Green, and A.C. (the latter track a "Sabbath Jam" from the Sabs tribute 7" series Hydra Head was doing). Plus three new songs in demo form, slated for their aforementioned upcoming full-length when/if that ever happens. These cuts are definitely worthy EHG material, especially fuzzed out and psychedelic and of course sludgy and Sabbathy.
This is pretty much something you'd want if you're a fan -- and you should be, if you like the heavy stuff that we sell the heck out of here at AQ. For one thing, there'd be no Khanate if it wasn't for EHG! After Hellhammer in the early '80s, it was pretty much these guys and Corrupted who pioneered the doomy "sludge-core" sound, y'know.
MPEG Stream: "I Am The Gestapo"
MPEG Stream: "36 Beers And A Ball Of String"

EYEHATEGOD Southern Discomfort (Century Media) cd 14.98
New Orleans' sultans of sludge come back with this compilation of singles and alternate takes. Rumors of their demise are highly exaggerated, it turns out, and EYEHATEGOD fans can rejoice that this is no swansong from these pioneers of super slow, ugly, dopesick dirge. And boy do these tracks sound better on cd than they did on the old vinyl!

EYEHATEGOD Take As Needed For Pain (Century Media) cd 12.98
We've referenced these drugged and ugly New Orleans masters of sludge-core in tons of reviews, as they're one of the ur-bands that established the rituals practiced by anyone heavy and feedback laden, like Moss, Bunkur, Boris, Dot [.], Cavity, Corrupted, Khanate, Iron Monkey, Grief, Wellington, Acid Bath, Garadama, etc.
So we were so psyched to discover that EHG's first three discs were getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Elsewhere on this list we review In The Name Of Suffering, most people's fave EHG record, their third, Dopesick, and this one, Andee's favorite Eyehategod record, Take As Needed For Pain.
Their debut was a hateful, feedback drenched trawl through a world of sludge, creeping and slithering, uncompromisingly brutal and crushingly heavy. Pretty much defining the sound of ALL sludge to come. With Take As Needed For Pain, they added a little bit of that NOLA groove (you know, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Acid Bath, Crowbar, Soilent Green, Goatwhore, etc.) to their sound, making their plodding shrieking sludge, a tiny bit more melodic and dare we say, catchy at moments. But take that with a grain of salt, melodic and catchy for a band like Eyehategod is still about a million times more caustic and corrosive than almost any other -heavy- band. It's really strange to revisit these EHG records and realize how many bands these days sound EXACTLY LIKE EYEHATEGOD!!! It's almost criminal. Sort of similar to the way SUNNO))) were basically an Earth tribute band, it's almost like EVERY one of the new breed of sludge bands is in fact an Eyehategod tribute band. But hey, who's complaining, it's a dark and disturbing sound we can never seem to get enough of. And as long as EHG are getting the props they deserve, then hell, bring on the sludge!!! Fans of ANY of the above mentioned bands who do not own this, are required by ALL THAT IS UNHOLY to pick this up immediately!!!!!!
As far as bonus tracks, Take As Needed For Pain is probably the best of bunch, 3 tracks from the long out of print Ruptured Heart Theory 7", a track from the also long OOP split 7" with 13, and two tracks from another long gone 7", another split with fellow sludge mavens 13.
Includes revised artwork and new liner notes from EHG frontman Mike Williams.
MPEG Stream: "Blank"
MPEG Stream: "Shoplift"
MPEG Stream: "Kill Your Boss"

EYEHATEGOD Take As Needed For Pain (Emetic Records) 2lp 24.00
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
NOW ON VINYL!!
We've referenced these drugged and ugly New Orleans masters of sludge-core in tons of reviews, as they're one of the ur-bands that established the rituals practiced by anyone heavy and feedback laden, like Moss, Bunkur, Boris, Dot [.], Cavity, Corrupted, Khanate, Iron Monkey, Grief, Wellington, Acid Bath, Garadama, etc.
So we were so psyched to discover that EHG's first three discs were getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Elsewhere on this list we review In The Name Of Suffering, most people's fave EHG record, their third, Dopesick, and this one, Andee's favorite Eyehategod record, Take As Needed For Pain.
Their debut was a hateful, feedback drenched trawl through a world of sludge, creeping and slithering, uncompromisingly brutal and crushingly heavy. Pretty much defining the sound of ALL sludge to come. With Take As Needed For Pain, they added a little bit of that NOLA groove (you know, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Acid Bath, Crowbar, Soilent Green, Goatwhore, etc.) to their sound, making their plodding shrieking sludge, a tiny bit more melodic and dare we say, catchy at moments. But take that with a grain of salt, melodic and catchy for a band like Eyehategod is still about a million times more caustic and corrosive than almost any other -heavy- band. It's really strange to revisit these EHG records and realize how many bands these days sound EXACTLY LIKE EYEHATEGOD!!! It's almost criminal. Sort of similar to the way SUNNO))) were basically an Earth tribute band, it's almost like EVERY one of the new breed of sludge bands is in fact an Eyehategod tribute band. But hey, who's complaining, it's a dark and disturbing sound we can never seem to get enough of. And as long as EHG are getting the props they deserve, then hell, bring on the sludge!!! Fans of ANY of the above mentioned bands who do not own this, are required by ALL THAT IS UNHOLY to pick this up immediately!!!!!!
As far as bonus tracks, Take As Needed For Pain is probably the best of bunch, 3 tracks from the long out of print Ruptured Heart Theory 7", a track from the also long OOP split 7" with 13, and two tracks from another long gone 7", another split with fellow sludge mavens 13.
Includes revised artwork and new liner notes from EHG frontman Mike Williams.
MPEG Stream: "Blank"
MPEG Stream: "Shoplift"
MPEG Stream: "Kill Your Boss"

EYEHATEGOD / CRIPPLE BASTARDS split (Southern Lord) 7" 4.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Last ever (again?) recording from New Orleans sludge masters Eyehategod. "I Am The Gestapo" is a typical (i.e. really good!) slab of their hateful, feedback-filled, crushing, churning doomcore. On the flip, this split release is shared by Italian grindcore maniacs Cripple Bastards, whose sludgier-than-usual, deathly track "Self-Zeroing" is well worthy of being teamed to EHG's supposed swansong on the A-side.

EYELESS IN GAZA Plague of Years (Songs And Instrumentals 1980-2006) (Sub Rosa) cd 14.98
We figure that since AQ pal Loren Chasse is so obsessed with Martyn Bates and Eyeless In Gaza, we figured we oughta just let him review this new one:
In the endless stream of comps, there's got to be something pretty special to get this listener to take notice.Ê For most listeners, when an anthology by a favorite band comes out there's the feverish question, "Are there any unreleased tracksÉ raritiesÉdemos?!"ÊandÉ "What about the packaging -- any unseen art from some original pressing?" The new Eyeless in Gaza compilation Plague of Years: Songs and Instrumentals 1980-2006 released by Sub Rosa offers only token fulfillment of the first obsession by including a track from a yet unreleased Eyeless record, Summer Salt and Subway Sun (supposedly due out in 2006...guess not?).ÊThe rest of the songs and instrumentals are all from full length records in the Eyeless catalog, but for three semi-rare songs from an old Sub Rosa Myths compilation from the early Eighties. So what's left for someone who's already 'in the know' about this legendary Cherry Red Records band? Not much but for a sensitively-mixed document of the musical prowess of Martyn Bates and Peter Becker, including some of their best songs -- "Fever Pitch" and "Bite" (is that a typo on this release, labeling it "Ever Pitch"...?), and "One by One" -- mixed among examples of their more mysterious and beautiful instrumental pieces. For a potential initiate to Eyeless In Gaza -- that is, someone who's perhaps all over the New Weird Now folk freakout and who might also have a soft spot for the drone and clang of such artists as Organum, Andrew Chalk or :zoviet*france: -- this comp would indeed be the perfect introduction. And if that potential initiate harbors a taste for beautifully fruity vocals (used only in adoration and reverence, Martyn!), then this could be a heavenly match, especially on those nights alone, rain pounding the window, black candles throwing moody shadows. If things worked out, of course, this comp might very well end up getting checked into the used bin on one's way toÊconsuming the entire Eyeless in Gaza catalog.ÊSoÉ while offering little to the fan other than reassurance that Eyeless in Gaza is still awesome 26 years after its first record, Plague of Years succeeds as a flare for alerting new ears!
MPEG Stream: "Ever Pitch and Bite"
MPEG Stream: "Lights of April"

EYELESS IN GAZA Song Of The Beautiful Wanton (Soleilmoon) cd 14.98
Eyeless In Gaza's troubadour songs could be of courtly loves or of the occultish mysticism found on the soundtrack to "The Wicker Man," and seeping with the dark rich production and theatrical vocals that wouldn't be out of place on any of This Mortal Coil's albums.

EYES AND ARMS OF SMOKE A Religion of Broken Bones lp 14.98

EYES LIKE SAUCERS Parmalee, Tribute To A Dog (Ikuisuus / Ruralfaune) cd 13.98
We first heard from Eyes Like Saucers back in 2007, when we reviewed the record Still Living In The Desert, which found ELS, aka Jeff Knoch, fomerly of hypnotic psych folkers Urdog, abandon his band, and his friends, ditch all the usual rock band instrumentation, and head off for places unknown, with nothing but a VW van, a handful of acoustic instruments, most importantly, an Indian harmonium, and his faithful canine sidekick. That record, was a fantastic bit of hypnotic dronemusic, a wheezing, druggy droniness, whirring and shimmery and meditative, steeped in the traditions of Indian ragas and modern minimalist drone music more than the psychedelic sounds of his former outfit.
Parmalee is the follow up, and is dedicated to his canine companion, as the subtitle suggests: "Tribute To A Dog". Hopefully this is just an expression of love for his dog, and they are still wandering the wilds together. Our first assumption was that perhaps Parmalee had died, and this was a musical eulogy, the sounds are definitely dark and moody and contemplative enough to be some sort of sad send off, but either way, these are some fantastic psychedelic space drone ragas, all wheezing organs, warm whirling chords, the sound thick and lush, but definitely ragged around the edges, urgent and intimate, captivating and totally mesmerizing. It's impossible to not fall immediately under their spell. Once again, we're reminded of nineties NZ dronerockers Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos, but this is much more ritualistic, much more home spun drone folk. The rest of the record introduces strange percussion, electronic synths, chimes and bells, slipping from alien folk ritual, to spare almost Appalachian sounding strum, to sea shanty like ballad, all culminating in the gorgeous woozy three part 23 minute epic Warrigal, a lush harmonium workout, the chords and notes wheezing lazily, all sun dappled and drone drenched, the sounds so organic and hypnotic, laced with bits of percussion and tinkling chimes, so haunting and hazy, meditative and dreamy.
MPEG Stream: "Sun And Moon"
MPEG Stream: "Warrigal Part One"

EYES LIKE SAUCERS Still Living In The Desert (Last Visible Dog) cd 13.98
Urdog was one of our favorite groups, a primitive psych folk ensemble, hypnotic and heavy and surprisingly prog, with a bit of space rock and a whole lot of drone. What was not to love?! The band called it a day a while back, but then a year or two later this little gem surfaced, a solo record from Eyes Like Saucers, which just so happens to be ex Urdog-er Jeff Knoch. But For ELS, Knoch has abandoned all the trappings of a proper rock band (ie drums, bass, guitar, etc), and he and his faithful canine companion took off in a VW van for the desert, armed only with an Indian harmonium, a toy piano, a glockenspiel, an oscillator, a Farfisa minicompact organ, a ukulele and presumably some sort of recording device.
The results are much how you might imagine from the instrumentation, long warm, warbly whirring dronescapes, the organ(s) pulsing, and wheezing, the chords shifting subtly, dense and layered, and drifting slowly, contemplative and dreamlike. Super obscure reference: reminds us a bit of NZ outfit Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos, but blurred into something much more static and meditative.
The record begins with a twinkling field of bells and chimes (the toy piano we're guessing) a playful high end field of plinks and plonks, melodies like sunlight through icicles, but then quickly the record gets slower and lower, transforming into a glorious shamanic drone record. Some of the tracks are rich and melodic, almost playful, jaunty, a bit like sea shanties (or desert shanties in this case), while others are lugubrious slow crawls, all whirring shimmer and blurred slow motion slither, some are peppered with the chiming toy piano percussion, or laced with Knoch's buried in the mix monotone vocals, others are left unadorned, just the notes and the melodies, the timbre and the tone, tangled into soft smears, drifting like a warm evening fog over the wide open sands of the desert.
So great. And there's even a Robert Wyatt cover! Quite recommended.
MPEG Stream: "Ideas Of Reference"
MPEG Stream: "Sea Song"
MPEG Stream: "Delusion Of Reference"

EYES, THE The Arrival Of The Eyes (Acme Gramophone / Lion) cd 16.98
Reissue label Lion Productions is doing their job right, bringing us this collection of the obscure but oh so killer material from The Eyes. Tough '60s garage rockin' here, from these Ealing, England mods. The disc starts off with the one-two punch of their 1965 debut single, "When The Night Falls" b/w "Rowed Out". A really raw, proto-freakbeat smasher all right, A and B sides both. Stinging guitar, primal beats, and equally raw vox. Catchy too! And there's more, plenty more to like here. What made The Eyes sound so great? Well, maybe their songwriting talent, maybe their edginess. You can get an idea of these snotty young punks' attitude from the title of the b-side of their second single: "My Degeneration". Which helped get them banned by the BBC for their subversive lyrics! Not that anyone today would likely find 'em terribly offensive... 'Tis true, though, that the lyrics to "My Degeneration" were subtly suggestive, moreso when you learn that the the word "coffee", mentioned many times in the song, was a mod euphemism for having sex. And mods liked actual coffee too. The last straw, according to the extensive liner notes (thanks Lion!), was when BBC suits saw 'em perform a song entitled "I Can't Get No Resurrection" complete with a crucifix stage prop. So, though somehow they did get to play with the likes of The Kinks, The Move, and The Action, and got some pirate radio play too, they were a BBC no-no and thus failed to have a hit single. With record sales just not happening (making their releases today quite rare and collectable!) they were forced into doing a "tribute" record to the Rolling Stones, under the name The Pupils, just to make a lousy 180 pounds. Thus tracks 17-28 included here, all covers of Stones songs (or covers of songs the Stones themselves had covered!). In another world, maybe the Stones would have been covering The Eyes... well maybe not but there are definitely enough bad ass '60s beat rockers here to make this a recommended purchase for any fan of garagey goodness.
MPEG Stream: "Rowed Out"
MPEG Stream: "You're Too Much"

EYES, THE The Arrival Of The Eyes (Acme) lp 25.00
Now available on vinyl!
Tough '60s garage rockin' here, from these Ealing, England mods. This collection starts off with the one-two punch of their 1965 debut single, "When The Night Falls" b/w "Rowed Out". A really raw, proto-freakbeat smasher all right, A and B sides both. Stinging guitar, primal beats, and equally raw vox. Catchy too! And there's more, plenty more to like here. What made The Eyes sound so great? Well, maybe their songwriting talent, maybe their edginess. You can get an idea of these snotty young punks' attitude from the title of the b-side of their second single: "My Degeneration". Which helped get them banned by the BBC for their subversive lyrics! Not that anyone today would likely find 'em terribly offensive... 'Tis true, though, that the lyrics to "My Degeneration" were subtly suggestive, moreso when you learn that the the word "coffee", mentioned many times in the song, was a mod euphemism for having sex. And mods liked actual coffee too. The last straw was when BBC suits saw 'em perform a song entitled "I Can't Get No Resurrection" complete with a crucifix stage prop. So, though somehow they did get to play with the likes of The Kinks, The Move, and The Action, and got some pirate radio play too, they were a BBC no-no and thus failed to have a hit single. With record sales just not happening (making their releases today quite rare and collectable!) they were forced into doing a "tribute" record to the Rolling Stones, under the name The Pupils, just to make a lousy 180 pounds. Thus tracks 17-28 included here, all covers of Stones songs (or covers of songs the Stones themselves had covered!). In another world, maybe the Stones would have been covering The Eyes... well maybe not but there are definitely enough bad ass '60s beat rockers here to make this a recommended purchase for any fan of garagey goodness.
MPEG Stream: "Rowed Out"
MPEG Stream: "You're Too Much"

EYESINWEASEL Wrinkled Thoughts (Wigwam) cd 14.98
You may not be aware of Andee's psychic precognitive abilities. He predicted that Eyesinweasel (which is fronted by Guided By Voices' Tobin Sprout) would sound like GBV but is not as good. Behold, Eyesinweasel sounds exactly as Andee said it would! Look out Uri Geller, there's a new kid on the telepathic circuit.

EZEETIGER s/t (Kimosciotic) cd 11.98
Lord knows we love us a one man band. Whether it's some shrouded figure who crafts grim black metal in a dim corner of a blackened cave or a goofy old man with a bass drum on his back and cymbals between his knees. Well, local one man band Ezeetiger falls somewhere right in the middle. Sort of. Clad in a big ol' furry bear suit and clutching a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Ezeetiger aka Anthony, spews out a big ol' thorny squall of splattery prog synths, cheesy wedding organs, squiggly spaced out melodies and surprisingly hooky pop, all buried in a murky sweaty musical knee to the crotch, and buffeted from all sides by ultra distorted garage rock scuzz, wildly careening overblown drums, and occasional bursts of buzzy, howled death metal crunch. Once in a while, the weirdness gets reined in and the clouds part, revealing, gentle, lilting vocals over gently strummed guitars or stretches of head nodding, fuzzed out Krautrock, but it's never long before gnarled drone-psych claws reach up from the abyss and haul the squirming struggling song back under!
MPEG Stream: "The Tiger Bounce"
MPEG Stream: "Fanta Es Pontino"

EZEETIGER s/t (Ghetto Kitty) lp 12.98
Lord knows we love us a one man band. Whether it's some shrouded figure who crafts grim black metal in a dim corner of a blackened cave or a goofy old man with a bass drum on his back and cymbals between his knees. Well, local one man band Ezeetiger falls somewhere right in the middle. Sort of. Clad in a big ol' furry bear suit and clutching a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Ezeetiger aka Anthony, spews out a big ol' thorny squall of splattery prog synths, cheesy wedding organs, squiggly spaced out melodies and surprisingly hooky pop, all buried in a murky sweaty musical knee to the crotch, and buffeted from all sides by ultra distorted garage rock scuzz, wildly careening overblown drums, and occasional bursts of buzzy, howled death metal crunch. Once in a while, the weirdness gets reined in and the clouds part, revealing, gentle, lilting vocals over gently strummed guitars or stretches of head nodding, fuzzed out Krautrock, but it's never long before gnarled drone-psych claws reach up from the abyss and haul the squirming struggling song back under!
MPEG Stream: "The Tiger Bounce"
MPEG Stream: "Fanta Es Pontino"