homestead records. 111 / 6 tracks / 1988

First album by the ex-Squirrelbait band who at this point were just D. Grubbs and C. Johnson. For the lack of fellow musicians they use a drum computer which - along with the aggressive, edgy guitars and the shouted vocals - makes this sound very similar to early Big Black records. Fine with me, but Big Black did this before (and better), so let’s just file this under “early works” [6].

Erste Platte der beiden ex-Squirrelbait-Leute, die hier noch alleine mit einem Drumcomputer agieren. Das Ganze klingt sehr nach den frühen Big Black, aggressiv, stampfend und mit schreienden Gitarren - nicht schlecht, aber BB haben das eben schon vorher und besser hingekriegt.

Tracks: (i’ve) ben brown / three eggs in a sock / counterrev: bhutan // gold fillings / loam / extract