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TORRID SEX IN EAST BERLIN (7")
Andrew Earles (Dusted Magazine) - "A-side of the year, hands-down. Heavy, prog-ish rock (not metal) with shit-hot playing and shit-hot hooks. A little mid-90’s aggro thrown in and hope for interesting new bands seems far from dashed (for the moment). The b-side is an instrumental rave-up that recalls Major Stars at their most succinct, and after a few spins, it’s as amazing as the a-side. This isn’t the easiest 7” to find, it being self-released and all, but do go out of your way, as it does what a single should do: gets those tongues a-draggin’ the floor for a future full-length."
ECSTATIC
EYES GLOW GLOSSY [CD & LP)
Plan
B - "Mutant blues, motorik rhythmathletics, early Eno whimsy and
Stooges grindhouse riffage all rub their oily hips together like a deep-fried
harmonic sex coven, and immaculately conceive a troubled but beautiful
hot-chrome hybrid, we might just christen 'Captain Beef Can' if we're
feeling asinine."
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CD available at Sickroom US // Pickled Egg UK
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WIN WHEN I WANT [Ltd. Ed. Tour CD-R]
Chicago
Reader - "Though the two guitars stay out of each other's way most
of the time--one's like a greased up show-off kissing his biceps and snorting
blow off some chick's ass, the other more like a dirty loner with a trucker
mustache who's smoking up in a gas station bathroom--when they land together
there's a luau of war cries."
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MASS
SHIVERS [CD]
The
Big Takeover - "Indeed, the masses will tremble. Meet Chicago's new
hope."
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