Fire Escape
(Smalltown Supersound) Used 2xLP $10.00
Shrieks, distortion, and neo-psychedelic noise layers at various frequencies and volumes, constructed in large part by producer Keiran Hebden of Four Tet, who lashes together African beat, Svengali hisses, atonal noise, electronic blips, sound clips, drone, Euro-trance, etc. With poster by Eye Yamantaka (Boredoms).
Loose Bugs
(Magnetic Expansion - MER001) CD $10.00
Sax blowing, cymbal scratching, upside-down-bicycle-with-a-wooden-stick-in-the-spokes free jazz, analog tape spinning forward and backward while broken stringed gourds are quietly plucked, a perfectly contented demon child occasionally mumbling, a tribe of self-proclaimed psychic gamblers blowing Thai flutes. Loose Bugs documents the first few months of Sunburned’s formation, recorded on Vestax 6-track with overhead hanging mics at Con-Artist loft in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1998. In hand-packaged and -numbered card jackets, covered inside and out with hand-carved stamps.
Rare Wood
(Spirit of Orr) Used CD $5.00
The first commercially available compact disc from this gang of sound explorers is a hyperdriven, claustrophobic ride on a swaying line that takes free rock to new heights, lows, and in-betweens.
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
(C-Town Skull) Used LP $7.00
“Pure rhythmic, dope-fueled, primal freak,” says Thom Jurek, “Varying pulses with guitars, basses, flutes, garbage cans, synths, and chanted, intoxicated vocals by who knows how many people…. [I]t flows, like lava ruining everything it touches.”