Chemicals Made
From Dirt -Ike CD
(Homework
#203) Long Island's lords of artwave ranged from straight-ahead
punkwave to loopy 50s- and 60s-popculture manifesti, but it's
all genuinely unlike anyone else you've ever heard: 1978-1983.
They called it "an avant absurd experiment...We liked the
idea of breaking down meaning to the point of abstraction and
then reinterpreting it based on personal associations and meaning
rather than having any absolute meaning. Eventually we got stuck
in our own muck, but of course we always were!" Tracks from
their 45, one for the never-released Live From CBGB Vol.
2, and three studio sessions, all in glorious hi-fi...(And naturally,
because it is on H2D, all 70+ minutes of it's loaded with
first-rate hooks.)