
They're a band that I had underestimated. Their previous EPs and singles were cool, but not necessarily enough to get too excited over. But Art at MuSick Records usually seems to know what he's doing, and when I saw their pre-release LP at the SG101 Convention that trust in him, combined with the record-buying part of my brain being very stimulated at the time, was enough for me to jump on it. And I'm glad I did.
Art tells me that even the previously released songs on this record were re-recorded, and though they sound exactly the same to me (not that I've listened to them next to each other), I've found myself pretty jazzed about songs like "Shot in the Head" and "Fantasmatron" that before I thought were merely pretty good. There's something, if you'll forgive me, electric in these recordings. The band sounds excited to be recording them, and that energy carries from one song to the next, as if the whole record were one take.