Another bamboozler from Fantome Phonographique. Originally released in 1958. PURPORTEDLY an album designed to be played in mental institutions (and elsewhere I guess) to help people get to sleep. Even issued under a fake "institution" name to lend some kind of scientific credibility to the whole thing. In reality just ("just") 2 side-long pieces of woozy synthy music a la Conrad or Riley, maybe a little more wiggy than you'd expect given the title but clearly a precursor to...a lot of shit where this never even gets a pioneering mention. Interesting. Creel Pone bootlegged it in 2012 but I missed it! Kind of a missing link here, hmmm...
I keep up with Sunburned only intermittently these days, they seem to be taking a more rock-ist approach lately. Like this one. Each track is about 4-5 minutes of pretty ramshackle, jammy, funky, boogie rock...almost spoiled by the throaty, beery vocals shouted over the top of each one of these tunes with nonsensical platitudes. I almost shut it off after a couple tracks but I stuck it out and kinda came around on some level. I was oddly reminded of My War era Black Flag sludge punk. The band sez "these Holy Grail fueled recordings are a mix of iphone and zoom recordings run through garageband, reaper and some plug-ins. We're still working on the much more listener-friendly Black Dirt session..." and point taken, listener friendly this ain't.
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