Formats
SB119/120 - 2xLPs
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Details
The second entry in Siltbreeze's Axemen reissue series, Scary! Part III originally saw light as a cassette-only release in 1989. Most bands and fans active in the Christchurch and Dunedin scenes at this time could tell you, sans embellishment, how the prolific Axemen blazed through the '80s (new cassettes seeming to come into existence on an almost daily basis), and, in classic Rashomon style, a different story would be told by all willing to reminisce, though it's safe to say everyone would agree that Scary!'s beguiling je ne sais quoi is some of the band's most intriguing blat to date. Unlike the hyper-punk-charged pastiche of Big Cheap Motel, Scary! operates from a gestalt concept and sensibility. While on the surface the contents might sound fragmented, ruminative, or obfuscatory, dig deeper (or listen better) and you'll see (and hear) the mystifying ooze lactating out of the four sides of Scary! not as individual, insurmountable constructs of bizarreness, but as a coherent pattern of brilliant phenomena that is- in a word-scary! Novice ears that have made it though this Bunyanesque giant find themselves making comparisons to a mixture of S.Y.P.H., Royal Trux, and Pt?se. All one can say, really, to such hodgepodge is "congratulations." After 20 years and counting, this release refuses to be aptly pigeonholed. Hell, even a seasoned horror chomper such as Shirley Jackson (were she still croaking) would advise giving these guys a wide berth. They mean business and their business is mean. Or as the poet (and bartender) Bing McFreud once scribed as an ode to this collection of doozies: "Be Very Afeared Cause This Ain't No Beard And You Have An Aversion To Clean." Scary! Part III. It's for real. Again. Finally!
Tracks
1. Heart Bullet
2. Church of the Loosely Brethren
3. 10 Miles (as the Crow Flies)
4. That Must Be Hell
5. Shacked Up in Yr Egypt Tomb
6. Join the RAF
7. You, You Cabinet
8. The Virgin
9. Animals Have Rights, Too
10. Accusation of Murder
11. Free World
12. Intermission
13. Sun Und Moon
14. Beer Und Flintstones
15. The Wreck of the Whistling Maree
16. The 2-Bit Star
17. Must Love Die
18. No Look Back
19. Nasty Moon Shine
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