Cargo Records

Drama Pit and Loan (Bonus 7")

We'll let Julian Cope do the talking ......"Immediately this motherfucker dropped on to the stereo, I knew I was in the presence of True Heads with One Eye fixed on the lunations of the heavens. That the album etched its way directly into my brain on first hearing is startling, for I listen to shitloads of new stuff and mainly wait for their turgid meandering self-obsessions to struggle to locate any dignified conclusion. And after the deep art-rock invention of Terminal Lovers, most of the so-called stoner rock gathering in their masses is just so much novelty compost." Julian Cope - www.headheritage.com

This is not like any CD Shifty Records has sent me to review in the past. More melodic, more traditionally structured, but in some other ways more twisted and perverse. These songs are like rock anthems gone horribly wrong, pop songs from hell, or music that hopelessly bent kids on acid might listen to in one of those bizarre flashback sequences in a David Lynch movie. That's my way of heaping enormous praise on this CD. The melodies are all enough off center to question the sanity of the songwriter, the playing is desperate and deranged, and the lyrics are downright psychopathic, full of paranoid thoughts, neurotic obsessions, murder, suicide, and totally weird symbolic imagery. This is so strange it changes the synapses in your brain with repeated listens. The vocals sound like Dr. John on peyote and the subject material and lyrical twists and turns would confound and confuse Roky Erickson. This is rock music creativity at its bravest. Rock music played at the furthest outposts of the musical twilight zone. Any song with lyrics that start with "My true colors darken and dance in this garden of throats" is gonna satisfy even the most dedicated Captain Beefheart da da rocker's quest for the unusual. Fascinatingly brilliant. - Glenn Tillman - Tangerine Magazine