The early-mid 80s had their share of insane combos -- The Birthday Party, Black Flag and Minor Threat had the raw power to melt your mind in seconds. SWANS, Einsturzende Neubauten and Big Black created enough overwhelming sonic pressure their sounds might actually flatten you. And Sonic Youth displayed such a dizzyingly unpredictable mix of art, pop culture and violence youd sometimes leave their shows drooling. The Buttholes shared elements with all of these groups, but added an insane psychedelic edge and a propensity for bizarre spectacle.
40 years later, Butthole Surfers have announced their first batch of reissues in collaboration with Matador Records certain to raise the roof for a lot of people who thought they had a pretty good handle on the outer realms of the 80s indie-rock scene.
PCPPEP was the first to feature the power of the bands classic two drummer line-up (King Coffey and Teresa Taylor). The synchronized percussive brutarianism of this pair (falsely rumored to be siblings) provided the perfect base for the unhinged blurt of the guitars and vocals then being shared by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary. Psychic...Powerless... Another Mans Sac was also wildly advanced over the previous records. Parts of the LP swaddled their punk edge inside so much oink and babble you almost couldnt discern it, with other segments stretching out into a mutant form of garage blues, and others just swirling out of control.
This evolution continued on Rembrandt Pussyhorse, mixing rock-based form destruction with experimental, tape-mangling passages of many flavors. Meanwhile, their live shows became legendary examples of excess and derangement, and their music just kept getting louder and stranger and more savage. It was the diametric opposite of the hardcore scene from which it had emerged, which was heading in ever more codified and stylistically conservative directions.
A1. Concubine A2. Eye of the Chicken A3. Dum Dum A4. Woly Boly A5. Butthole Surfer B1. Lady Sniff B2. Cherub B3. Mexican Caravan B4. Cowboy Bob B5. Gary Floyd
- Released: 03/22/2024
- Format Detail: LP
- Genre: Indie & Alternative
- Format: Vinyl
- Released: 3/22/24
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