Two cuts from 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!
Automatic Head Detonator recorded a guerrilla show outside a Sonic Youth gig on a flatbed. You can hear Thurston’s guitar in the background between songs.
“It has the start-stop beat you like but without the distortion and the guy can sing a lot better than Paige Hamilton, even if he does sing through his nose.”
Occasionally, keyboards, dulcimers, and guitars fade in and out, but the voice, and its echoing layers, make this a perfect CD for a quiet night by candlelight.
I was impressed with their first album, Svartalvheim, on Listenable, but The Canian Cronicle is truly above any standard set by Ancient, and maybe black metal.
The raucous and randy conclusion, “Bite This,” was a chorus-line set to Calypso music, with costumes graphically depicting the “devouring woman” archetype.
They may be old has-beens, they may have only done it for the money, but it’s those guys playing those songs, every one a classic and not a speck of filler.