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Track listing:

1. Jesus Guitar / 1st Thoughts
2. Twain
3. Ring That Bell
4. Juice
5. S.O.S.
6. Watcha Gonna Do?
7. Layin Low
8. Turnpike
9. Ragamuff
10. Child Of The Sun
11. Muff, VA.
12. Lay It On
13. Moon Chant
14. Cheap Motel
15. Honeysuckle
16. Lassitude
17. Dave's Thing
18. Lullaby


• It's been a long, glorious road since this cult artist, a longtime Revolver USA favorite, first appeared with the Original Sins
  
• Uniquely wrecked pop collides with unimpeachable, heavy psychedelia
  
• Endearingly eccentric and decidedly, delightfully druggy
  
• Reference points: Syd Barrett, Roky Erickson, Skip Spence

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Jesus Guitar/1st Thoughts
  Twain
  Ring that Bell
  Juice
  S.O.S.
  Watcha Gonna Do?
  Layin Low
  Turnpike
  Ragamuff
  Child of the Sun
  Muff, VA.
  Lay It On
  Moon Chant
  Cheap Motel
  Honeysuckle
  Lassitude
  Dave's Thing
  Lullaby

• 37 tracks collected on CD for the first time-- the best soundtrack material from cult legend's filmography, plus radio spots and sound bites
  
• 24-page booklet with disgusting stills and liner notes by Lewis
  
• Front cover lettered by Lux Interior of the CrampsA must for trash collectors

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Official Warning
  Tragic Kettledrums/Eye Gouged Out/Legs Cut Off
  Blood Feast (Main Title)/Homicide Bureau
  Fuad Ramses Exotic Catering Service
  Brains Knocked Out
  Theme from 2000 Maniacs
  Recurring Virtuoso Guitar Bit
  Lister's Garbage/I Told You That Blade Was Sharp!
  Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
  It's Almost Like Halloween

The Consumers recorded their one and only album in a small Phoenix studio in December of 1977 - eleven scorching tracks delivered in nineteen minutes, all loaded with anger and pure nihilism - and immediately moved to Los Angeles. Once in L.A., the band hit the live circuit, playing clubs like the Masque and the Whiskey A Go Go. Their sets were often violent; in an incident documented by Slash magazine, the entire band once beat vocalist David Wiley bloody onstage for no good reason! It didn't take long for them to be banned from clubs all over town. Legendary punk record label Dangerhouse agreed to release their album, but within a few short months, the label folded and the band imploded. Eventually the band members went on to other things: guitarist Paul Cutler formed 45 Grave and later joined Dream Syndicate, vocalist Wiley formed the Human Hands and the rest went on to lives of drugs, the military or dead end jobs. Presently, only two members of the band are still living.

The Consumers album remained unreleased until 1994 when In The Red Records issued it as a limited-edition LP which sold out quickly. Now, for the first time, it is being issued on CD, newly re-mastered and sounding louder and nastier than ever. This is real punk rock - the kind FM radio is too chickenshit to deal with and video network lunkheads are paid handsomely to ignore.

"We worked as if executing a field recording. The band would play a piece, sometimes for hours, over and over until they felt they'd reached the correct level of concentration, at which time they directed me to record. I had the sense of eavesdropping on a private ceremony. I sat in the control booth for hours, watching the shadows move behind the screen with no "music" being generated at all - just the kind of highly ritualized sounds I recognized from the initial CDRs they'd sent me. Heated, violent arguments - shouting matches, really - would lead seamlessly into a soft and beautiful groove, or just as likely, a martial stomp, or a miasma of dissonant electric atmospheres. My role as producer was simply to capture these moments on tape. We worked later on the editing of this material (some ten hours of original recordings, as I recall) with the band standing behind the screen conferring, shouting, arguing, laughing, or simply directing me and the engineer (all in indecipherable Italian, sporadically translated).

"With electric guitars, accordion, organ, bass guitar, drums and percussion, their voices, a trumpet or trombone, and an occasional handmade tape loop, Larsen work and work themselves into the core of the rhythm and sounds they generate. Grooves begin with a certain feel and transmute entirely by the time they wring the essence into its final shape, which is what you hear, in edited form, on Rever. That's why I say they're like field recordings - excerpts from an ongoing rite, documented by a non-invasive stranger."

--M. Gira, Young God Records

• Ritualized dissonant groove-stomp "field recording" documented by non-invasive stranger M. Gira (Swans / Angels of Light)
  
• The Young God label continues its devotion to Europe's most interesting bands with this debut release from Italy's Larsen
  
• Released by Gira's highly visible Young God Records, featured on label's much hit site, www.younggodrecords.com

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Impro #2
  Radial
  Mentre
  Finger Number Six
  Intermezzo
  Akin
  Intro
  Maya
  Impro #1

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  Larsen "Rever" (Young God)

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Their twelfth album, The Great Annihilator, is a majestic symphony of haunting melodies and shifting moods. Spirituality - or rather the absence of it - provides the linking motif. With a kinetic, industrial goose step, "She Lives" plays with chanted images of madness and martyrdom, while the jagged coda of "Celebrity Lifestyle" lays the groundwork for a cutting look at material dreams.Ö "Warm" forms the album's thematic center, overflowing with ethereal vocal loops and drums that patter like raindrops accross the lyrical landscape. On "Mother/Father" and the mantric "My Buried Child," vocalist Jarboe outdoes herself with a spectrum of darkly distinctive voices.

Taken on its own, this album is a vivid example of how to combine the dissonant with the dulcet while retaining a dangerous edge. Viewed in the context of the Swans' 12-year journey from audio pornography to majestic romanticism, The Great Annihilator serves as an epic apotheosis.

--Neva Chonin, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1995

• Reissue of their twelfth album
  
• Lushly packaged in digipack with lyrics book insert
  
• Contains some of Gira and Jarboe's most haunting and ethereal vocal work
  
• Dissonant, dulcet, dangerous - some of the best late-period Swans material

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  In
  I am the Sun
  She Lives
  Celebrity Lifestyle
  Mother/Father
  Blood Promise
  Mind/Body/Light/Sound
  My Buried Child
  Warm
  Alcohol the Seed
  Killing for Company
  Mother's Milk
  Where Does a Body End?
  Telepathy
  The Great Annihilator
  Out
  I am the Sun (Live at The Flesh Club)

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  Swans "The Great Annihilator" (Young God)

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