A curious little late '90s document from the mercurial Southern California one man project ON MY OWN BUT NOT ALONE. This cassette listens like a lost anarcho gem - drum/vocal political rants assailing the artificial female hormone industry, poetic presentations addressing inequity and death backed by nothing more than the sound of rain, minimal synth, and a slew of angular punk tracks that may be a bastard descendant of night of passion between Bullshit Detector and Punk And Disorderly - all created and assembled by Shannon St. Ryan, an exceptionally nice (and, quite honestly, interesting) fellow who has been involved bands and recordings as varied as PHOBIA, STRUNG OUT, IN CONTROL and NAKED AGGRESSION. The fifteen tracks here take up just over half an hour and run the spectrum, filling genre defying holes as they veer in and out of compartmentalized punk and making this a wholly listenable and engaging cassette in the process. I can only imagine that there are (or could have been?) countless more hours of this creative manifestation, but it appears that this untitled (unreleased?) demo and a split EP with PUS are the only physical documents available for public consumption. It's rare that you get to think this much....
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