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Todd McFarlane Crushes The Tyranny Of Corporate America

by Crab Smasher

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This album was arranged in bits and pieces on a fab new Tascam 2488 Digital Recorder in Budgewoi and Newcastle and was released in October 2005 at a hot Newcastle show above a dress shop with Yellow Swans, and Grey Daturas. No longer limited by crashing computers and dodgy pirate software, the band were able to wrestle all kinds of demonic sounds out of the gear they had been using in their live sets, making for a closer representation of what the band actually sounded like. Still, they took advantage of the studio environment, the album features layer upon layer upon layer of conflicting instrumentation, strange go-nowhere melodies contrasted with piercing electronic noise, spazzing out cassette walkmens, gameboys playing level one of a Spider-Man cartridge, wild clarinet solos, poorly played violins, scratchy field recordings of barking dogs, dead shopping centres, and bastard kids. Despite being a jumbled clash of noise, each track retains a certain song-like quality that hints at a direction they would later explore and refine for the 2007 Impossible Monsters EP.
The album featured a handful of special guests on some of the tracks, including Chris Hearn of Alps Of New South Wales, who played drums on his bones are made of wood and grow like a tree with skin…birds are attracted to him and make nests on him…they bring twigs and things, Mike Foxall of Nancy Vandal plays the absurd guitar solo on The kids on the street will never give in, and Chloe’s little brother Ben Russell played a guitar track on You’re letting the sadness of the swamps get to you.

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released October 31, 2005

Lineup:
GRANT HUNTER
NICHOLAS FRENCH
CHLOE RUSSELL

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Crab Smasher Newcastle, Australia

Experimental/free improvisation/noise pop trio from Newcastle NSW Australia. Using electronics, drums and guitars they produce a playful, clumsy and unpredictable mutation of psychedelic rock, noise, drone, doom, avant-pop, post-punk, electronica, new age/weird etc. etc. ... more

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