Erase Errata / Numbers / Split

Tigerbeat6

NOW BACK IN PRINT AS A 5" CD! Fresh off their respective US tours, Erase Errata and Numbers have already proven themselves essential to the new school of rock with their deft cross-breeding of no wave, punk, and disco to create a brilliant ass-shaking hybrid. This release brings you these two purveyors of punk alchemy in its finest form. The four women who comprise Erase Errata started playing together in 1999, yet their uncanny inter-responsiveness makes it sound as if they've been playing together forever. The songs are rhythmically layered concoctions of shimmying, sweaty disco-beats and clean, bright bass lines that wrap their jerky, dance-y energy around distorted, sawing guitar. In perfect counterpoint to the music is singer Jenny's charismatic, declarative voice. Think Au Pairs, The Raincoats, or The Slits on a date with The Contortions and you're just starting to get it.  If this record was a race between two machines, Erase Errata would be an artfully jury-rigged go-kart and Numbers would be the robot craftily constructed out of leftover buzzers, re-wired circuits and obsolete industrial parts. Translated into music, this means: danceable architecture constructed of stuttering analog buzzes and beeps; crisp, sparse drumming; and staccato blasts of guitar and keyboards. Claustrophobia is palpable in the terse drums beats, short, sharp guitar attacks, and dry vocal delivery. The mechanics of these propulsive, beat collapsing, manic songs have hailed comparisons to Units, Melt-Banana, and Chrome before, but really, it's a sound all its own.  TRACK LISTING 1. Numbers - Goin' Insane 2. Numbers - Palo Alto 3. Erase Errata - Retreat, The Most Familiar, Extensive, I Bet! 4. Erase Errata - Thief Detests The Criminal  * Countless local and national shows have nurtured a strong, continually growing fan-base  * Erase Errata's Troubleman Records have been critically acclaimed and sold well  * Erase Errata is touring the US summer 2002, Europe in September, and opening Sonic Youth's US tour    

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