AFS v. 221 ~ You're Soaking in It!

If you were one of those ballyhooers who pooh-poohed the last Crash Normal album--My First Stop--for being too straightforward of a Jon Spencer-ish garagey bluespunk album and lacking in all the cool artpunk angles and junk-techno accoutrements of Heavy Listening and earlier singles, then you'll probably be happy to hear this new Finger Shower 10" a-comin' on Rijapov soon. The Spencer touch has been lifted in favor of a Wallers slant; the Country Teasers are covered on this, and echoed throughout. Have a taste of "Chrome Cramps" this week...you might envision the possible result if Wallers had borrowed "Doktor Avalanche" offa Sisters of Mercy to make a headphone soundtrack for crushing the countryside in an armored tank. As Crash Normal has been a twin guitar attack in the past, I don't know if there's a bass guitar anywhere here, but it's no matter 'cos there's some brawny low-end presence that syncs up brilliantly with the rhythmic bludgeon. It's certainly a lot more dour and mean than anything you've heard from Crash Normal before, but I think that old fans will be very pleased. Another fun thing about this 10" is how it makes you wonder....What the hell is a finger shower??? Is that something like the scene in "Election" when Matthew Broderick's character takes a genital shower before returning home to his wife after an extramarital tryst?

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THE HUNS | Busy Kids | v/a: Bloodstains Across Texas | Bloodstains 1992 (orig 1978)
SUPER WILD HORSES | How Do You Sleep | v/a: The World's Lousy With Ideas vol 7 7" | Almost Ready *new
DAY CREEPER | Outerbelt | v/a: New Kids on the Block 7" | Randy *new
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT | All Together Now | Golden Oldies | no label *new
GANGLIANS | Rats Man | Ganglians | Woodsist *new
THEE OH SEES | Tidal Wave | Tidal Wave 7" | Woodsist *new
REAL ESTATE | Fake Blues | Fake Blues 7" | Woodsist *new
MOVIE STAR JUNKIES | I Love You More as Dead | split 7" w/ Vermillion Sands | Rijapov *new
NOTHING PEOPLE | When I Drink | Late Night | S-S *new
CAVE | HLD2/Hunt Like Devil/HLD3 | Hunt Like Devil/JAMZ | Permanent 2007
CAVE | trk 5 | Psychic Psummer | Important *new
TV GHOST | The Fiend | Singles Club 7" | Columbus Discount *new
OCTAGON CONTROL | Hedz R Gunna Roll | split 7" w/ Doctor Scientist | FDH *new
HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD | Black Mold | s/t 7" | Stank House *new
NICE FACE | Situation is Facing Utter Annihiliation | Mnemonic Device 7" | Sacred Bones *new
CRASH NORMAL | Chrome Cramps | Finger Shower 10" | Rijapov *forthcoming
PLASTOBETON | Hard to Kill | a 31 7" | SDZ *new
DOLINA | Once Again | v/a: Radio Resistencia | Enfant Terrible *new
THE PINK NOISE | Buzzsaw | Alpha | Almost Ready *new
TECHNO PRISONERS | Huge Slit Splitting Love Log | split CS w/ Sewn Leather | Hardscrabble Amateurs *new
METALUX | Oblivion Bibulah | split LP w/ KK Rampage | Rampage *new
ZOLA JESUS | Sea Talk | Tsar Bomba | Troubleman Unlimited *new
THE SHORT WAVE MYSTERY | Ecaterina Szabo | Pilots 12" EP | Good 1985
HELENE RICKHARD | title unknown | v/a: Solveigs Lied Remixes | Teen Action *new
MODEL Z | Military March | v/a Radio Resistencia
CULTURAL AMNESIA | Repetition for This World | Enormous Savages Enlarged | Klang Galerie *new (orig 1981)
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI | trks 9-10 | Lazer Saber | JK Tapes 2007
BILLY BAO | Putrified Egos/Broken Mirror | Dialectics of Shit | Parts Unknown 2008
KNELT ROTE | Assimilation Estrangement | From Without | Celestial Gang *new
KNELT ROTE | Masked Descending

Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom VII was a gas, huh? That was certainly the best and most successful ORMF fest ever. We didn't keep counta the head, but we woulda lost count anyway, I figure. Probably 450, even in the sweltering heat...WOW! The highlights for me were the slow-burning sax-assisted jamrockers by Eternal Tapestry, the mayhem of the Mayyors (resulting in ORMF's first ever stagedive attempt), and the sublimity of Thee Oh Sees. Now, this might make you really jealous if you missed it, but something happened that was unprecedented in live performance, I think. You know that Oh Sees song "Two Drummers Disappear"? Well, two drummers appeared during this show, and one of them was named Chris Woodhouse, and he added some extra wallop during a couple extended jams which were just superb in every way. Maybe we'll get #8 going for October....who knows?

And on that triumphant note, if you're in the Sacto/Davis area, be ready for more rulingness from Freeform KDVS Presents...

Wednesday, May 20 @ The Hub
1819 23rd Street in Sacramento
(between R & S Streets) $5 9pm

Cave (Chicago)
Nothing People
Art Lessing & the Flower Vato

Saturday, May 23 @ DAM House
503 E Street in Davis
donate $5; 7-10 pm only

Blue Sabbath Black Fiji (Scotland)
Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk (Lawrence, KS)
Mucky the Ducky

Sunday, May 24 @ The Hub
$5, 9pm

Deflage Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra (Basque Country/feat. Mattin)
Jean on Jean (Molly of Out Hud)
Mucky the Ducky
Yours