BERT Big Box Schwing 1997

 

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Big Box Schwing Review

by Jack Rabid

One has to wonder if Steve Albini ever sleeps. Or eats. Or goes to the bathroom. Or has sex. Or pets his cat. Or does anything other than place mics and roll tapes. Not only does he cheaply and efficiently record more bands in a month in his Chicago studio than any "big name" ever, but he also travels to document ornery groups as well. In this case, he was off to the unlikely Mecca of Millbrook, AL, to set down this Montgomery trio. Like a few of the bands Albini has also played in, Udo Keel's guitars grind in a gnashing way. Likewise, Keel often shouts like a man with a hotfoot, the bass percolates, and the drums favor off-kilter beats and tom-tom bashings. Some of this is pretty standard raunchy, angry post-punk, but the better, more fluid passages in songs such as "Human Redundancies" hark back to the mid-'80s Chicago sounds of Big Black, Breaking Circus, and Naked Raygun circa "The Peacemaker."

Tracklist

1		Hard Day's Nacht
2		Warm Smell of Colitas
3		Your Crutches
4		Human Redundancies
5		Hot Sex & Strychnine
6		Pathology Of The Foetus & Infant
7		White Frothy Dis
8		Poke Your Sad Eyes Out
9		Heroin In The Workplace
10		Dead Armadillos
11		Keep The Bull Full of Meat & Flowers
12		It Smells Good, Daddy
13		Trapperkeeperhunterkiller
14		Down's Syndrome Gallery
15		Bonn, You're So Smart