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NEW TAPE OUT NOW ON ABSURD EXPOSITION TWO RECENT CANADIAN SLAUGHTERS IMMORTALIZED

ITHACA 12.15.17

FINAL SHOW OF 2017 AT PSYCHIC READINGS IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 12.20.17 WITH MON.ARK AMMO AND MORE

outofhopeoutofropeandoutoftime

LIVE @ MOUSETRAP CHICAGO, IL 9/29/17 PHOTOS BY PETER COSTOPULOS

Our guide to the week’s crucial LPs.

“These live sets of one-man electronic powerviolence—short blasts of noise made from jerry-built analog electronics, a voice hoarse and spent from screaming—might seem an odd choice for a recommended record, given the sheer number of ‘professional’ records released into the world every week. This one really snagged me, though; Josh Landes, A.K.A. Limbs Bin, has a deadpan-humorous approach (not uncommon to the genre, but artists often struggle with striking the right balance between acerbic jokes and making too light of things that matter), and an actual ear for noise construction. This is an easy style to approximate but one that it’s difficult to do well. Landes genuinely sounds like he’s performing a self-exorcism as the sets go on, his distorted voice blending into his overdriven, shrieking, scraping electronics, something real opening up under the patter and screel; though at first the sets seem purely chaotic, by the end, I found myself riveted. As well, it’s worth celebrating the fact that music doesn’t need to be professionalized to have heart or meaning, that these live recordings are breathing records of everyday underground spaces (too rare these days, and too valuable), and it’s worth noting that the audiences stay attentive all the way through.—Jes Skolnik“

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IDIOT BLAST ANTHEMS. TANGLES OF HOMEMADE ELECTRONICS. DISCONTINUED DRUM MACHINES. A HOARSE CORPSE. SEVEN LIVE SHOWS ACROSS FOUR YEARS. OVER AN HOUR OF NOISE. COUNTLESS BAD JOKES. NEW AND UNRELEASED SONGS. HAUNTED HOUSES. LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES. SECRET LOFTS. TINY LIVING ROOMS. A BLACK FLAG COVER. MODEST AMOUNTS OF APPLAUSE. THIS IS LIFE IN THE VANGUARD. FEEL THE WIND RUSH AGAINST YOUR FACE. LIMBS BIN IS LIVE FOREVER.

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