earlier in the year i said this about the race to the bottom sevenincher: with a sleeve that looks like it was designed by me drunk at four in the morning with a head full of medicine and my hands celltotaped to a broken felt tip pen. two tracks with the overdriven guitar sound [...]
... and better quality.) Funnily enough, I thought the first one I had - thermocouple one - was a sevenincher, but the whole thing is 9 inches long, being 8 inches up to the hilt! Confused'?? I am. Ho hum...
... twigs’ old-time swagger. it’s a deliciously raw record, and the most hellfire rocking since the sevenincher he recorded with the twigs last year (which is incidentally one of my all-time favourite pieces of tiny vinyl). what i dig most about their work is: a) that they’re not in the thrall of the traditional, they’re not folkster academics engaged in some intellectual exercise, they’re...
... ads with the masked king, the adolescent junior whopper, the burgers to poor villagers, and the sevenincher "blow your mind" ad are just meant to stir up people with their bad taste and give the "we're so cool, we can rattle their cage" wink. The other is "meat is manly." Their ads always make me think of the old Christopher Titus routine that he used...