December 27, 2010

Crushed Butler – “It’s My Life” b/w “My Son’s Alive” 7” (Windian)

This is more like it. Authorized cherry-picks of two excellent proto-metal stompers recorded in 1970. This is one of the few original hard-boogie bands touted as “proto-metal” or “heavy” who are really metallic and shockingly heavy for the time. The a-side plows along at such a velocity that it qualifies as proto-punk and erases every single minute the MC5 committed to record. Highly recommended, though both songs have been issued on a still-available LP. Limited to 600 copies on black vinyl. (http://windianrecords.blogspot.com)
(Andrew Earles)