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Liz Berg on 07/01/2009 at 04:55PM
Schizo Horny Spazz
Art skronk is not for everyone. I wouldn't consider myself in the anti-art-skronk crowd necessarily, but it sure ain't pumping out of my speakers with much regularity. That being said, sometimes a girl just needs to get her skronk on, and my current favorite spazzy skronkers happen to be Brooklyn's Talibam!
More than a free jazz improv freakout, Talibam bring the noise rock, the keyboards, the skronk, spazzy drums, and (gasp) dare I say proggish stylings into a giant fun messy tantrum of songs with enough structure to appeal to the skronk haters. Like your spaghetti-os spilling all over the floor, but you look down at the mess and realize the shape resembles Spuds MacKenzie.
Anyone who can tie the refrain "bur-fucking-rito" to a shoo-bop interlude to Balkan-esque skronk in one song is ok in my book. Seriously. Listen to "Schroeder Meets Jagger" below. It's one of two sample tracks from their latest release "Boogie in the Breeze Blocks" on ESP-Disk, who recently began uploading promo tracks to the Free Music Archive.
The band also made an appearance on OCDJ's show on WFMU a few years back, and that recording has just been released on LP: "The New Nixon Tapes" (Roaratorio).
