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HR 150EP
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"This 2-song 7" is the latest from Rocket From The Tombs. Originally formed in 1974, this is the first new material recorded by the band and the first release by the band since Rocket Redux, the follow-up release to the band's definitive retrospective, The Day The Earth Met The...."
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HR 149CD
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With Sarah Jane Morris. "Released by Hearthan, and exclusively marketed in North America by Smog Veil, Long Live Père Ubu! is the album of songs that was the genesis of the entire mess. It is a great leap forward in our pursuit of hyper-naturalistic recording techniques by which we replace microphones in the studio with wooden boxes, junked radio speakers, metal horns, and electrically charged window panes. Sound itself becomes the narrative. Everyone is going to hate it. We know that. The story, though satiric and comedic, is utterly bleak, lacking charm (the usual counter-weight to the band's noire tendencies) and devoid of redemption. Few people have ever read Ubu Roi, fewer heard of it. Wonderful. Altogether two years of work. Père Ubu, the character, ruined Jarry's life. And now he's ruined our career. This thing is our Waterloo, our Bridge Too Far, our Pickett's Charge. Well, somebody had to do it."
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HR 117CD
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"If there is a narrative thread to the eclectic art/punk mosaic that constitutes Pere Ubu, it is the vocal musings of legendary front man David Thomas. Throughout the long history of the band from it's proto-rise out of the back water industrial malaise of Cleveland Ohio in the mid seventies to later incarnations that included avant garde luminaries like Chris Cutler and Captain Beefheart refuge Eric Drew Feldman, Thomas has formed a synaptic core that drives the band's creative peregrinations. Originally released on Rough Trade records in 1989, the disc features high quality live recordings spanning the band's most prodigious period from 1978 through 1981. Burning through Ubu classics like 'Dub Housing' and 'Codex', Thomas adds spontaneously sweeping arrangements to now classic material as the band sticks to the loose but aggregate teleology that characterizes Pere Ubu at it's best."
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