Cargo Records

Scrape the Walls

After three long years, we have a new album by FLESHIES, a loud band from beautiful Oakland, CA, who have released two loved-to-death-by-the-kids albums on Alternative Tentacles.

After their second full-length The Sicilian (VIRUS 297) and years of body/mind-warping worldwide tour marathon, FLESHIES withdrew into drummer Brian Hamiltron's Sugar Mountain Studios to work on a new opus. Breaking away from the punk rock tradition of banging out a record in a few days, they took their damned sweet time making the most ridiculous album possible. Scrape The Walls is a spirited 17-song effort to molest Punk Rock in a similar manner to the way SPARKS unwholesomely molested glitter rock, the MELVINS mauled rock, or the BUTTHOLE SURFERS maimed music in general. Speaking of SPARKS, this album includes a delightful cover of ³Happy Hunting Ground² with JELLO BIAFRA on guest vocals. Scrape the Walls bounces everywhere from somewhat sunny-dispositioned pseudo anthems to sludgy, stoner rock-esque castings, all glazed with FLESHIES¹ inimitable sense of fuck-you humor. But honestly, no 200-word summary can neatly tie up the disorderly strands of ideas and musical chaos that is FLESHIES "¹and we wouldn¹t want to do them such disservice"¹so we will just say Scrape the Walls is exactly the kind of record AT should be releasing and leave it at that.