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The most beautiful part of An Earwig's Guide to Traveling is that it doesn't feel like a discography record. If Swans had been a power violence band then Soundtracks for the Blind probably would have sounded something like this retrospective. ![]() They mixed up Man is the Bastards bass bludgeoning with weird burbling noises, random jazz freakouts, manipulated tape insanity and other oddities. Unlike the lightspeed hardcore of the day, Gasp brought a more brooding brand of sludgy noise to the power violence plate and they took their goddamned time about getting there. But their very weirdness was this SoCal "psychedelic power violence" band's greatest asset: an outre attitude that set them far (FAR!) outside the musical boxes erected by their mid-90s contemporaries (bassist Cynthia got more conventional when she went on to Despise You). You try to tell me what that's even supposed to mean. They had an album called Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People and stage names like Professor Cantaloupe, ferfuckssake. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.Īn Earwig's Guide to Traveling: Collected Vinyl and Unreleased Tracks 1996-1999 ![]() A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
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