PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE

Egon Bondy’s Happy Hearts Club Banned

(LTM) Used LP $45.00

Doom-laden music from 1974, based around the words of the titular Czech poet /philosopher whose work had been banned by the government. Released in 1978, the album is infused with black humor and impeccable musicianship, steeped in Eastern European classical composers and The Mothers / Fugs / VU triumvirate. Hang on tight for Van Vliet-like meters, spider-running-across-the-fretboard guitar solos that duke it out with wigged-out theremin abuse, two-tone squalls of sound battling for skronk supremacy, sinister basslines augmented by creepy violin-sawing, and reverb-soaked Brötzmann-esque saxophone excursions. Includes sixty-page booklet