Soft Serve
Title: 420 Roach Shabba // Label: no sides The car keeps stopping and starting. Warbling synths do the up and down, slide rock and lean. Sometimes tripping though 1980s German drugs, Soft Serve trips on some familiar song structures, but mutherfucking ADD makes for short breaks, mood swings and quick changes in between bouts with bad ideas. She keeps screaming nonsense at the passers-by, but her holler is more confident then I remember. Beats dipped in reverb get a new lease on life fueled by new vices and new advice. Four albums have allowed Soft Serve to claim the guzzle drugs and sparkle sideways style as one uniquely her own. Now she can go fast and slow at the same time. Now she can get heavy. Sometimes it takes a lot out of you to get heavy. Sometimes it is necessary nevertheless. Once at a show, I saw her eat two live goldfish. The next day, she confided in me that she could feel their souls inside her feeding her power and energy. Then she ate another one. What if that voice mail is the last time you ever hear his voice? The escalator goes up and down simultaneously. Review by Rotten Milk
Eavil
Title: Le Miroir Unilateral occurrence, tenderness of the breasts and characteristic genital involvement, cervical, femoral, and generalized mycobacteria toxoplasmosis. The sound of true love: an incubate malignancy. Gold leaf sperm. Do you want people to unconsciously pet you? A gritty feeling - pink eye perfume. Neon boa constrictors in chaps jack your body and you gag on rubbers. Talk me down. Glamour Slammer - a penis made of spam. Look, it’s really good. It’s way better than the original. And they are giving it away. And they’re never gonna stop, not like you. Review by Eleanor Balson
Warhammer 48k Title: “UBER OM”
I have a boner for Warhammer 48k, a sludgy rock 5 piece from Columbia, MO. The record sleeve/liner notes on my copy of Warhammer 48k’s new LP doesn’t seem to contain any information regarding the name of the album, or any of its tracks (even the band’s name on the front of the record is difficult to read -especially when you are really high.) However, on the website “audiolunchbox.com” I was able to find out all of that important information. All the tracks on this record blend together. According to this website there are 6 of them and there names are stuff like “Citizen Pain” and “Haunted Abortion.” What a bunch of weirdos. This record is awesome. Sometimes they sound a little bit like Sleep. They seem less heavy on the record than they do live. Before I had this record I used to listen to a live recording of Warhammer 48k playing at Hey Cadets. This record is better than that recording. The best song on that live recording is the last song on this album. It’s called Failed Suicide Attempt #1. The name doesn’t really fit, because this song makes me want to live triumphantly more than it makes me want to swallow a bleach cocktail. Maybe that’s why it’s a failed attempt. Review by Jon Rybicki
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