Diminished Men – Shadow Instrumentals LP (Abduction)
Attention middle-aged males: Do you still own the entire Sun City Girls discography? Did you spend the ‘90s with air travel-negating girth, oblivious to your wood-warping, paint-peeling, lunch-reversing, HAZMAT suit-necessitating body-odor? Were you afflicted with a mysterious ailment known only as “cobweb crotch”? Abduction is here to help. Put on this record. The professionally-executed surf-jazz-post-rock NPR-bait filling the room is none other than a conceptual project created by Abduction (at one time, or still run by one or both of the Sun City Girls) for the sole purpose of assisting male Sun City Girls fans in the acquisition of living and breathing strange. There’s nothing like the smoky, faux-sultry sounds of Morphine and Calexico when it comes to attracting Pilates instructors with sub-boob chests, bodies like one big piece of rope, and serious delusions of sexiness. Throw open the windows and blast this aural lube into the neighborhood; there’s bound to be one of these exercise-addicted wenches power-walking down the street. Remember…show restraint with the rest of your record collection! “Live From Planet Boomerang” will make her brain melt from her ears. (http://www.suncitygirls.com/abduction)
(Andrew Earles)
