Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Destroy All Monsters
Double Sextet

Printed Matter #16

LP
£16.99


Excellent excavation of a massive single track jam from the early, raucous incarnation of this confusing Detroit art/punk cell who eventually recruited some Stooges and MC5 members and took jack-off garage moves into sleazy, porno-rock realms. This particular line-up was just as enamored by The Stooges, albeit the Steve Mackay era-LA Blues style. Combining a love for free jazz and avant rock with a boob-tube irradiated ethos, the players – Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Jeff Fields, Kalle Nemvalts, John Reed and Jim Shaw – rip it up with an ultra-primitive (though still rockin’) take on the aesthetics of free as delineated by a buncha Creem readers. A snippet of this jam appeared on the Yod box that collected a ton of their early material but this is the first time it has been heard in full and it is pretty monstrous, running from grinding,  interlocking guitars that feel tectonic in their power through Ur-Stooge riffing, wailing saxophone exchanges and crude grooves. This one plays like the MC5 album that Siltbreeze could’ve released.