369 1/2, by Serious Problmz

369 1/2

by Serious Problmz

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1.	Phthalates 07:31	buy track
2.	Gallopavo Stress 06:01	buy track
3.	Stadium Buddy 01:16	buy track
4.	Foaming Pig Manure 02:26	buy track
5.	No Funeral, Gorm Deficiency 08:48	buy track
6.	New York Tongs 04:48	buy track
7.	How To Lubricate A Treadmill 03:04	buy track
8.	Reverie Of The Forgotten Brontosaurus 02:56	buy track
9.	First Waft! 00:33	buy track
10.	You Make Me Feel Like Stabbin' 00:55	buy track
11.	Republican Martyr 03:53	buy track
12.	Fear The Paste 01:28	buy track
13.	Free Dead Dog 03:27	buy track
14.	Land of Entrapment 08:42	buy track

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This obscure ’80s quintet never released anything in their day, and performed live only a couple dozen times. The excerpts from their semi-private recording sessions preserved here are pensive, quasi-industrial meditations peppered with dire and distorted melodies of immaculate brevity and the musings of disoriented hicks. The unhinged landscapes navigated by Serious Problmz would make Diane Arbus blush -- musical and poetic territories littered with paranoia, dread, desolation, emotional and psychological predation, spookily anthropomorphic farm animals, and objects of inexplicable provenance. As players, guitarist Lucian Tielens, Thor Heglund on Mattel Synsonics drum machine, Felix Mace on vocals, lyrics, homemade noise-makers, and assorted objects, guitarist Mark Evans, and Dave, the inevitable bass-player whose last name no one remembers, achieve a comfortable familiarity with one another, without sacrificing the ramshackle spontaneity essential to their brand of very damaged rural surf (aka rurf). Guests The Whitefronts’ Phil Smoot and Tim Smyth of Bren’t Lewiis help push the primitive jams in new directions with elements such as running water, the clack of a manual typewriter, a telephone ringing, random clangs of a metal canister, and the sinister grinds of an electronic corn-and-callous remover.

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released April 1, 2014

Serious Problmz was Felix Mace, Lucian Tielens, Mark Evans, Thor Heglund, and Dave. With: Tim Smyth, Phil Smoot
Recorded at Sidney Africa’s Place Of Dwell, Chico CA, 1985-1986
Mixed and edited at No Spray 205, San Francisco CA, 2014

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