THE USA IS A MONSTER
Tasheyana Compost (LOAD Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This is actually the record I needed to listen to after a long day of listening to dreamy, ethereal, shoegazer crap, which is not to say that all shoegazer stuff is crap, but the stuff I was listening to today really was. This is chaotic, noisy, astructural, undisciplined, and wonderful, pure poetry about crack pipes and platypuses and death and being environmentally conscious - all the things I care about on one big album. It's kind of like what you'd expect to hear if you brought a shitload of instruments into an institution for the mildly insane and passed them out with the condition that they had to record an album in exactly one hour. You know, that's something I'd like to do some day. I bet it'd be a bitchin' tax write-off.

[Pick this up at www.loadrecords.com.]

© 2004 - Holly Day