Baboon

Numb (Grass)
by Austin Nash

I saw two Baboons screw on TV once. The one in the back stood up on the heels of the other and screamed “MASTER SALVATORIS FACE DOWN IN TURPENTINE!!!” repeatedly ’til it came (amazingly reminiscent of Thought Industry’s Horsepowered). Just so happens I was listening to the upcoming EP from those fart smellers… smart fellers – I mean… from Baboon. Appropriately entitled The Numb EP, song five of the six was called? You guessed it! Salvatoris isn’t in the Almanac or my threadbare excuse for a dictionary, but he must have been the biggest monkey. Baboon’s EP features two cuts from its freshman release Face Down In Turpentine, two cuts from their upcoming Secret Robot Control, and two cuts that won’t be available anywhere else, so buy up kids! The band spent time on the road with Fugazi, and members used to be in a Butthole Surfers/ Cure cover band. The guitars are staticky and loud (don’t get too close). Vocalist Andrew Huffstetler gives lessons on how to get yourself into voice reconstruction therapy, and the Descendents/All-like base and drum rhythms (this means swimmy in melody and hitting every eighth note in steady pentameter) save it for the punk rack. Beautiful in its senselessness.