Mangrove 2002

A sampler from the Mangrove label, released, as you may already have deduced, in 2002, and containing a mix of noisy punk, garage, psych & hardcore from what seems to be a collection of mostly Tokyo area bands. Some of the more pop-punky stuff isn't really my bag, but there are some excellent tracks on here.

1 Evil Hoo Doo, The - Hell-O Haunted
2 Evil Hoo Doo, The - Black Strings
3 FirestARTer - Dear My Sweet Radio
4 Private Ways - Post
5 Usuals - Wasted Time
6 First Alert - T.V.Masturbation
7 First Alert - Pinpoint Attack On My Alarm Clock
8 Barebones - Mind Breaker
9 Smash Your Face - Can't Get Out
10 Smash Your Face - I Believe In My Way
11 Delta, The - Compressed Paradox Disorder
12 Boris - Dronevil
13 Death Comes Along - Death Comes Along Part Ⅰ
14 Death Comes Along - Death Comes Along Part Ⅱ
15 Deride - I'm Making My Future With The Border Patrol!
16 Foodchain - Naka-No
17 Nine Days Wonder - Bleach Away
18 Man Friday - Last Destroy Dawn (Live)
19 Man Friday - Hesitate To Have My Share (Live)

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(p.s.- medifire's been wonky as fuck for me: let me know if you fine people are having trouble dl'ing)

Death Comes Along : Psychedelic Inferno

(the mighty Crow himself, and yes, this is the cover.)

Fronted by Crow of the eponymous titans of crust; Death Comes Along are an odd by-blow of an orgy of genres.  The dedication on their 1st lp read:

Funeral March for Amebix, The Mob, Dirt, Antisect, Crude SS, May Blitz, Flower Travellin’ Band, Diamanda Galas, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru, Amon Duul, Black Sabbath and German Oak.

Which should give some idea what to expect.  The four tracks jump from a long brutal psych jam to a few minutes of breathy whisperings, then into another long track, this one an unrelieved feedback drone, which bleeds into a morose refrain topped with throat singing and buzzing bees: the first and the last at least are pretty damn good.



PSYCHEDELIC INFERNO

Linus Pauling Quartet : C6H806

So you wake up in the harsh morning light on the coat-room floor, stinking and sticky with miscellaneous fluids, and the burly man in the black shirt is kicking you gently and saying, without rancor, 'hey, you can't fucking sleep here, ok?'.

What I'm trying to say is: 'Drunkest Man' is the jam (the rest of the songs are also quality).

Heavy-psych/stoner/space-metal from Texas, named for Linus Pauling. Check them out here.


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