Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #96
I’d call this episode an “Australian special”, but these days, aren’t they all? Loads of new Australian bands this time like BLANK STATEMENTS, DILEMMA, PAPPY, DRAGGS, BENT, HEAT WAVE and THE STROPPIES, to say nothing of new, non-AU bands like TOUGH TITS and ALMOND.
Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #96 also features new reissues/unearthings from LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE and BLOWFLY SAINT, plus the usual obscure sub-underground library material from Rat At Rat R, The 2x4s, Dick Johnson, UV Race and other fetching stunners from the last five+ decades.
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Track listing:
BLANK STATEMENTS – Building a Ramp
DILEMMAS – Towel
THE STROPPIES – Go Ahead
BENT – Bless You
DRAGGS – Hearse
PAPPY – Subiaco
HEAT WAVE – The Man
ALMOND – bbhexp
PRIESTS – Radiation
MODERN ART STUDIO – Dear Dad
THE GIRLS – Keep It Simple
THE 2x4s – Iron Line
DIG DAT HOLE – A Similar End
RAT AT RAT R – Big Rock Joke Doll
LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE – Conscious Unconscious
LIECHTENSTEIN – Stalking Skills
UV RACE – Low
CLINIC – D.P.
DICK JOHNSON – Hip Flask Swagger
TOUGH TITS – No Know
THE EXECUTIVES – Jet Set
BENDERS – Can’t Tame Me
BLOWFLY SAINT – Glue Glue Glue Moon
The Lyres were one of my very first intros to “garage rock”, vis-a-vis their college radio hit “Help You Ann” around 1983. I heard them before I’d heard The Sonics, for what it’s worth. Yet I’m not being a deliberately-doubting Thomas when I say that this band always seemed to overindex with Europeans and Bostonians, leaving the rest of us to try and figure out why so many of their “soulful” garage/R&B songs were so goddamn tepid. This new Spanish box set of 45s attempts to help explain, and thankfully comes with a CD of all of the material for easier access to the conundrum.
I’ve been venturing down a free jazz rabbit hole of my own making in recent weeks, which is something I’ve dabbled in occasionally over the past 25+ years but rarely with any regularity nor staying power. Just so happens that this exceptional new platter from Norwegian-American trio Irabagon, Hegre and Drønen arrived precisely when my receptors were most tuned to ingest it, and man, what a melting slab of intoxicating free wailing it is. I’ve given it the once-over several times now, and it reveals more with each playing. It’s feeding a true holy-grail quest for more recorded savagery from these guys on my part, though it’s pretty clear this is their first time recorded in this communal set-up.