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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

MP3 Eat Skull Gone Wild

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:51 PM

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I had no clue that Eat Skull has a new album, Wild and Inside, coming out on April 6th courtesy of that smoking midget-loving label of theirs, Siltbreeze. Oh, you knew? I'm terrible at my job.

Judging from the brief time I have spent with Wild and Inside, it's pretty clear that the album is the next logical step for the band. Both noisy in volume and punk in spirit, it's hardly the noise-punk statement that last Summer's Sick to Death was. Good luck slapping a label on an album with such staggering attention deficit disorder and deliberately aimless first-take recordings. But that's sort of the point with Eat Skull, right? They're less interested (too bored?) in focusing on any one direction, instead each song is a shapeless endeavor, taking form just as often as it crumbles apart.

The finest moments of Wild are quite spectacular; opening with the playful anthem "Stick To The Formula," which is capped by short blasts of carnival organs and a bouncy chorus that begs for some live show call-and-response. The drowsy spoken/sung "Talkin' Bro In The Wall Blues" is downright epic for an Eat Skull song (3:18, that's a lifetime!), and—please take this in the best possible way—sounds like a Doors' outtake. It's a great song—and I fucking hate the Doors—that shines some light on the band's tempered growth. And the finest moment of the album? That comes courtesy of the hazy "Cooking a Way to be Happy," which binds faux '60s psychedelia with, um, breakfast. Sure, why not?

LISTEN:







Eat Skull - "Cooking a Way to be Happy"

The band will be selling Wild and Inside at their March 31st show at East End, but I'm not sure if that counts as a proper release show or not.

 

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Note to music journalists: LEAVE THE DOORS ALONE! They are a great band and time shall make that once again clear, removing the headshop haze that now obscures that fact.

And, yes, "Stick to the Formula" is an incredibly good, unbelievably catchy song. One of my favorites of the year so far, without a doubt.
Posted by Cary Clarke on March 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM · Report
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Never.

I hated the Doors as a kid, I hated them in 2002 as The Doors of the 21st Century, I hate them now, and I shall hate them when my body is buried in some French cemetery. (I plan on being killed by the French authorities while desecrating Jim Morrison's grave)

But I do like Ray Manzarek's work on X's Los Angeles album.
Posted by ezra on March 25, 2009 at 4:27 PM · Report
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Cary-
You are wrong about the time thing. All time is going to do is kill off all the baby boomers who thought the Doors were great the first time around because they were too stoned to think otherwise. Time is going to prove us Doors-haters right.
Posted by Rob on March 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM · Report
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You're just bitter cuz I said mean things about The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Rob.

Listen to the song "Indian Summer" from Morrison Hotel and tell me that it isn't amazing.

Also, I refer you to this post my friend wrote on the Doors issue:
http://pers.picacio.us/quilly/?p=86
Posted by Cary Clarke on March 28, 2009 at 1:31 PM · Report

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