08 October 2010

LIVE NERVE


Live mix tape glory for your early fall Friday. GRUNTMUSCLE is the only band that I had even heard of before this tape, so get ready to tuck into some random jams from some late '80s rockers from New Zealand (I think that's where the tape is from, and I am open to correction and/or confirmation). BIG ED'S USED FARM sound kinda off kilter with a really clean guitar - sounds like Jasper Thread (DEAD MILKMEN) playing for THE FALL and I kinda like it, but I'm glad there are only a few songs. MORAL FIBRE are more straight up UK punk, fast and catchy with great bass lines (especially "Black + White"), while DODGE WEIRDOS slog through a plodding bass heavy 4 minute dirge. In case that wasn't odd enough, THE STRAP-ONS spend twice as much time making three times the racket on "Do You Swallow Cum?," which is art/noise/improv weirdness at it's finest. NERVOSO close out the first side with two raw rippers - sounds like they might have been a pretty basic female fronted UK styled punk outfit, but this live treatment makes them sound absolutely fierce. The flip side starts with STENCH THERAPY, who are pretty awful. I mean awful as in they sound like shit, but I kinda think it rules. More NERVOSO and BIG ED'S USED FARM (seriously, what the fuck were they thinking with that name?), raw snarling madness from GORSE, and the aforementioned GRUNTMUSCLE wrap up the tape (slow and noisy, like FLIPPER delivered by arty post punks). The sound quality ranges from satisfactory to really noisy, so prepare your ears for a serious workout.


3 comments:

SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS said...

cool kiwi core

Kai said...

I think Big Ed's Used Farm is a neat name.

Denial said...

Dodge Weirdos and Strap-ons shared members with Mindfuckers and possibly Gorse. Strap-ons continued releasing tapes till late 90s mutating between a lounge noise act and a garage band.A 7" was released on Kato records plus some self released lathe cuts and a few CDrs. They were still going at least 5 years ago. Moral Fibre from invercargill released a few tapes and memmbers went on to be in wellington band Loosehead with a pile of releases. There was Gorse album at some point that may or may not have been released on cassette.