90 Day Men's '1975-1997-1978'
If 90 Day Men is a name unfamiliar to you I suggest that you immediately download 'To Everybody' and 'Panda Park'. Uniquely progressive 90 Day Men over their three album career produced a variety of sounds and coming off somewhat as a psychedelic post-hardcore band. '1975-1997-1978' is devoid of all those fancy genre names though acting somewhat as the strict derivative of Louisville and the respective Chicago math rock scenes. 'Sink Potemken' comes off much like a Slint b-side. Opener 'My Trip to Venus' foreshadows the band's pop sensibility anchoring everything dissonant and unpleasant out of the math rock genre and coming off as entirely beautiful. Reference points are made on 'Streamlines and Breadwinners' to the legendary Vidablue or Ten Grand how ever you wish to label them. Conclusion 'Hey, Citronella!' reveals the progressive tendencies that the band would fully build on with their first LP. Fantastic EP and definitely a great foreshadow for the rest of the band's career.
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90 Day Men - '1975-1997-1978' (1998)
4 comments:
I really like the one particular song that sounds like Maximillian Colby (maybe Sleepytime Trio migt be a better comparison for some of it at least). They really get the energy of the sound down pat, it's almost spooky. And the song after it reminds me of Repeater-era Fugazi.
very interesting EP
hey, thanks for this. i was recently listening to To Everybody and decided to give Panda Park a first listen.
what a great band. to hear these descriptions after only knowing the later two albums has my interest piqued.
the two later albums are so much better, but its interesting to see where they came from outside of that first LP. i agree with gabba's assessment.
hey!
is there any possibility to get the lyrics to this EP and the first album? desperately searching... can't understand the words from favourite songs....
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