FCKNBSTRDS; Slam Pampers
LP, 2003 (Secondhand)
Record Sleeve is one-off handmade cover art.
The FCKN’BSTRDS are basically a bunch of misfits from the margins of the Dutch music scene… Obscure hometapers, rancid performers, bad mutants, crap artists and borderliners with a tendency for chaos and noise. It is nihilistic primal punk, it spits in the eye of professionalism and perfection. It is an insult to good taste. It celebrates the failures and defects and mistakes on which this world is built, and that made us into what we really are: TRASH.
DUMB AND THE UGLY; Dumb and the ugly
Mini LP, 1990
Early 1990s Melbourne instrumental/exploratory supergroup made up of Michael Sheridan (guitars), Dave Brown (bass) and John Murphy (drums), laying down chunky chugga-chugga rhythms. This 12″ 45 vinyl was released in 1990. Comes with poster.
DOUBLE LEOPARDS; A hole is true
LP, 2005
Recorded, appropriately enough, at the Tar Pit in Brooklyn, A Hole Is True is likely to be the group's easiest-to-find release to date, and is perhaps the most succinct distillation of their shadowy, merciless arts. The title seems a slight misdirection, as there's no sign of holes anywhere on the album's three impossibly dense squalls. Whatever its substance, the opening "Inmost Light" enters with a dizzying electric whirr that repeatedly threatens to congeal into a riff, before getting blown to pieces by a cyclone of unmoored spectral wails. "Chemical Wedding" is even simpler, just a razor-thin current of pulsing overtones, while the 21-minute "White Cadillacs" uses voices nearly recognizable as human to deliver shifty messages directly to the reptilian core of your brainstem.
