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Shriekback - 80's - 90's demos official release VERY LIMITED


Shriekback - 80's - 90's demos official release VERY LIMITED

Postby anemiccinema » Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:59 pm

Act fast-- another release from the Shriekback Camp on a very limited run - they say may be sold by the weekend.
Includes an early mix of the classic "Fading Flowers" see info below

"The Island of the Hopeful Monsters"----- lost Shriekback demos from the 80′s & 90′s
TRACKLIST
from Big Night Music
Black Light Trap demo
Death, Sex and Money
Fine Minds (soon to be Running on the Rocks)
Pretty Little Things demo
Guiness Despair

from Oil & Gold
Faded Flowers (excerpt)

from Go Bang
New Man demo
Got Heat
Over the Wire demo
Purified

from Naked Apes & Pond Life
(and also the aborted Lunar Seas album)
Seething (Sinus Aestuum)
Juice (Mare Nectarum)
Sea of Vapours (Mare Vaporum)

and introducing THE FLESH BEACONS (Andrews, Barker, Lu Edmonds and Marvin Black)
Shake the Big Tree
Goodbye My Monkey

We adapted our title from a fictitious book by Kilgore Trout - Kurt Vonnegut’s alter ego - in which, after an ecological cataclysm, the forces of evolution create mutations which might stand a better chance of survival in the new conditions:

‘..the humanoids found themselves the parents of children with wings or antlers or fins, with a hundred eyes, with no eyes, with huge brains, with no brains, and on and on.
These were Nature’s experiments with creatures which might, as a matter of luck, be better planetary citizens than the humanoids. Most died, or had to be shot or whatever, but a few were really quite promsing and they intermarried and had young like themselves.’ (’Galapagos’)

The tunes on this album of demos (from roughly ’86 to ’96) are all of them experiments; all in development.
Some, like Black Light Trap and Over the Wire have gone on to have successful futures upon internationally released albums: here you can hear them three-quarters formed as we groped towards their ideal shape.
Others were immediately abandoned and have languished for years on cassette tapes to eventually emerge, still-born, in the museum of this collection. Some of them, in our opinion, were perfectly acceptable but fell victims to adverse circumstance. There is a lot of luck in Natural Selection, after all.
To all of them, though, we owe our parental allegiance. They all must have seemed like a good idea at the time
Once they were all Hopeful.

(All the tracks are taken from cassettes, hyped by technology as much as we dared. Hiss and holes are deliberate - being the lesser of evils)

http://shriekbackmusic.tumblr.com/


Order here
http://www.shriekback.com/store
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Re: Shriekback - 80's - 90's demos official release VERY LIM

Postby anemiccinema » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:54 am

I received this in the mail last week and gave it a listen -- DO NOT BOTHER GETTING---unless you are devout fan. The CD sounds like a bad cassette left in a pool of water... laden with bad edits, sound dropoffs, missing channels,No EQ- flat--
even The star of the show "Faded Flowers is only a 1:30 snippet fade in mid lyrics- fade out mid lyrics -- I Do not recommend.. The last 5 songs sound ok but they are more recent style ShriekbACK..
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Re: Shriekback - 80's - 90's demos official release VERY LIM

Postby Barmy » Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:19 pm

I do think this band is milking their past to excess. Still love them.
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Re: Shriekback - 80's - 90's demos official release VERY LIM

Postby elviscaprice » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:11 am

Thanks Anemiccinema for your honest opinion. Sometimes we all want so much more from this era than can be possible squeezed out. Enjoy what we have. Great band.

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