Banana Head - In the Tubs

In the Tubs presents a continual attempt to articulate the sadness and loveless infatuation of Banana Head, but every syrupy track falls prey to the codeine-induced remoteness and feeble basement wipeout emotion of a total loser/way-too-old mama’s boy. Shying away from the pop record, Banana Head falls back on the simple instrumentation and rainy window fidelity he finds essentially inescapable. These songs too are stuck in the tubs, lulled into the void of pill-popped stagnancy. Nonetheless, In the Tubs seems to be a sincere demonstration of a rock lover’s desire to deconstruct the canonized song structure and take it to a heartbreaking extreme. “no talent no rules, muchacho”


Bird - Hoy en día

Investing in some free synth software, a snare, and a tiny guitar, Katie Leming explodes any previous notion of loner-muzak with her unparalleled neo-outsider no-pop chug. Unlike her drumming and singing in Cro Magnon, here Katie moves into a new primitivist realm, where any and all world musics and pop strategies can be appropriated and channeled into the temporal angst of a college girl whose apartment sucks.


Vincent Over the Sink - Bible Bashers

Kept on the low for several years now, VOTS have released a couple short gems exclusively in their native Australia. Bible Bashers is their American debut, channeling post-post punk cynicism and modernist anxiety ala Lambkin and the Ring, not to mention their ancestral Xpressway slog. Deeply religious, these two extended pieces, composed of several sections each, meander between structured bedroom monotony and bunkbed-nightmare dirge. Features members of Naked on the Vague.


Paradise Sisters - Jeff Atkins no. 7

Supposedly there are nineteen sisters and they all play together and never ever look at each other. Continual transgression and vacation woery. All this in preparation for an LP on De Stijl Recs.


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