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Date: 5.7.2005 Author: Stu Gibson Magazine: Sleazegrinder The Graves Brothers Deluxe Light Good Forks __________________________________________________ "I Live In Sin With My Thoughts..." These San Fran based mutations create deviant brown Woodtock acid voodoo visions out of a succulent stew of funky blues, a pinch of some depraved rockabilly-esque ripple n' rumble, psychedelic free jazz, post punk yet poppy noisescapes, arty Bowie /Roxy Music experimentation and....Ahhh fuck it all and fuck it, they make me think of alligators, them glideboats in the Everglades, alien abductions, corn circles, serial killers in the Australian outback, survivalists (weird, I know) and Doors songs I can't remember the titles of (the one that goes 'We go uptown, we go ALLLLL around'). Basically. Their 'Art-fag garage' is an enjoyable headfuck, I thus conclude. Serenely surreal, and welcomely so, lyics('I dreamt I got attacked by all the things in the sea food store...' on southern grill steak soulpopbebopbluesburger ' About The Future ') all schloozed out of a scotch soaked larynx that is a combustible cocktail of Jim Morrison (on the rougher been up been up all night riot on Haight/Ashbury ' Nerves ' and ' I Hear Light Coming Down '), Julian Cope (on more croonsome moments like ' Legs Rub Together ' - 'I crave bug spray perfume...or you' - which then transmogrifies into the finest thick stonersewageswamp Sabbath -esque slunk of the sort perfected, then casually discarded, by Smashing Pumpkins on 'Gish', that'd now make Billy Corgan run to the hills and join a Buddhist commune. He has? Oh), and maybe a sliver of Bon Scott (with an umbrella in of course), the spirit of John Fogerty seeping into the ice cubes, and some killer weed in that Mojito amongst the mint. Combined with very visual, cinematic music. Yuss indeed, ' Big Chain Store ' has an air of ambient Julian Cope doing his best Krautrock impression, dancing round the Avebury stone circle with The Flaming Lips that, combined with Red Crayola freeformfreakout finale (which is actually quite irritating, almost gave me a rash) - the appropriately nonsensically titled, or plain nonsensical really, ' The Flame Of The Final Inferno Is Jude Ass Hotplate' kinda had me convinced for a moment that out there in the Bay Area they exist as some extra-terrestrial genetically mutated spawn, maybe the offspring of those abductees from the fifties, and these tracks are them phoning home to the big mellotron in the heavens. At first late night listen I woulda told you, with a certain sour-faced neat gin disgust, that the cover of Supremes classic ' You Keep Me Hangin' On ' had gotta be in jest, m'lud. Surely? On further listens tho I think it works as a perfect rash flat-trashing dehydrated, dog-eared, dog-eyed da gyul done left insanity plea...distorted vocals sounding like a man shriveling and distending from the inside out in a cheap sci-fi B-movie. Ennervating-ly, enjoyably erratic, worth a sniff, ya'll. Now, where IS that Doors tape? This is how much of an enjoyable headfuck they are. They're making me use my precious Saturday time to look for Doors tapes I don't like...could almost be remote psy-ops if it wasn't such a pointless mission. __________________________________________________ -Stu Gibson *Note* - that's not really the cover. The cover is some creepy cartoon. I can't find it. I fear it is still in England, with Mr. Stu. We like this picture alot, tho. If it was our record, that's what we'd use. ?± Sleaze |