BAD LIVERS
Blood & Mood (Sugar Hill)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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If you like your music neatly categorized, forget Bad Livers. One track will be bluegrass, one will be hard rock, a few will be punk, there might be some psych in there, and one day I fully expect a Yiddish love song to appear on one of their discs. No way to be certain what this Austin, Texas duo will do or when they'll do it, though there are two things you can count on: it's gonna be funny and it's gonna be great. Well, there's also the certainty that whatever genre they pack a song into, they're going to deconstruct the hell out of it. Take "I'm Losing," for example. Wham-bam punk guitar, bass, drums and vocals, and then there's a very trad country pedal steel guitar near the end that just blows your mind. Or would you prefer a hilarious punk-rap-hillbilly-something-else-too tune called "Fist Magnet"? We've got variety galore on this menu. At any rate, how can you resist checking out an album with songs called "The Legend Of Sawdust Boogers" and "Man vs. Fate - 2 Out Of 3 Falls, Ten Round Limit"? What, are ya made of stone?! Got no humor in yer soul?

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