Degreaser – Bottom Feeder LP (Negative Guest List)
Either this thing is missing an insert or I am really impressed by the complete lack of info about this slab, including band members, song titles, etc. Is it more of a mystery or are you just expected to Google all that stuff now? Anyway, here is New York noise thud of a very Australian demeanor (frontman Tim Evans was in Sea Scouts and Birdblobs before coming to the States and continuing on with Bogan Dust and Coconuts), one of the better such hunks of buzz from last year, released on one of the better labels of our weak and simpering age, an organization which doesn’t exist anymore due to the untimely passing last year of its founder. These puds sound like they can barely move, or at least barely move their hands., The guitarist whangs away at a solo here and there, as if he faded to presence long enough to try to reply the murky, knotty riff he heard in his head or maybe just writing the notes in the puke on the floor will work. Evans finds this weird spot between shitty Mark Smith worship and sounding really hammered. While my taste in this sort of gunk usually runs to the slightly more shall-we-say nimble, there is always room in my heart for sludge-rake as “touched” all fronts as this. I am sure your heart works similarly. (http://negativeguestlist.blogspot.com)
(Joe Gross)
