Friday, December 07, 2007
Come to Blackjack Country/Bulb
Come to Blackjack Country/Bulb EP (Bulb/Blackjack, 1995)
A perfectly bizarre twin billing 'promotional for sale' EP put out by the two labels that most perfectly continued the weltanschauung of ESP Disc into the 90s; the Blackjack label of California and the Bulb label of Massachusetts. Each label contributes a track from 7 artists on each side, ranging from the "punkier" clangor of Harry Pussy, Sternklang and the Whales (see tracks below) to the ephemeral and occasionally wince-worthy Shriek, Lids and Doodle Dandies, amongst others. I would've included the Lake of Dracula track from the Bulb side, but they only get around to abusing their instruments in the last 10 seconds or so of their track and bandwidth = thousands of dead bunnies so no go. Listening to the whole of both sides is akin to catching a head cold, beating it with a sigh of relief, then having it come back to sandbag you right before the weekend, so you dose on radical head drainers to compete with the viral load. You're left slap happy, feverish, clammy, mobile and slightly sticky, that's the total package on this.
All the tracks on this thing are exclusive to this discus, so you'll have to really wanna dig to get the rest off a copy of the original crap vinyl pressing. Ahhh, they aren't that hard to find, any old hole in NYC or Chico should have one in the bargain bin. We're still waiting for a full court press resurgence in interest in these two labels, someone get started on a noise/rock book that covers the 90s before someone enshrines the likes of Unwound as some sort of gold standard. -Ryan W.
// posted by W/S @ 10:04 PM 
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Bulb records is one of the finest rock labels the 90's had. from the king brothers to the Incapacitents.
Never mind the bottomless pile of awesomeness that was Blackjack.
Volume 2 was awesome too.
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Never mind the bottomless pile of awesomeness that was Blackjack.
Volume 2 was awesome too.
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