ARTIST: ALUMINUM KNOT EYE
TITLE: TRUNK LURKER
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: DEAD BEAT RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DB 54-1

TRACK LIST:

Final Fling Of The Amputee
Scales In The Tub
Cannibal Chew Cud
Squirmling
Is It My Body?
County Trunk
Once Upon A Time In The Midwest

Mechanical Bull Museum
My Life As A Eel
Car Batteries And Baby Oil
Stiff
The Thing On Your Doorstep
Scummy Dummy
Pleistocene 

INFO:

After a low-key decade-long run, Wisconsin's AluminumKnotEye finally unleash an album proper. These guys were making strange noise before strange noise was the current rave, before the nouveau indie bohemes copped the "art" schtick, before the last crop of garage punks dropped their Rip Off's covers and headed for discordant, angular horseshit that's as empty and worthless as it is fake. AKE are the real deal, and I love 'em for it. Think pieces of Chrome, the Residents, Big Black and Debris grafted onto the primitive r'n'r template birthed by the Pagans, the Electric Eels, early A. Cooper, etc., yet addled by the big-balls overdrive of early AmRep savagery and mangled by savage production. Keith's vox writhe and growl over the din as it explodes in short bursts and threatens to collapse, the barely-noticeable keys scraping weirdo patterns in the underbelly of it all the while. "Scales in the Tub" is tune of the year. Buy, or forever wallow in other boring stuff by other sub-par bands.