Chicago based psychedelic blues band Razorhouse are not particularly happy about the state of things, now that fascism is becoming fashionable and science and facts no longer seem to matter. On their new Songs About Bunnies & Crocodiles EP, the band's songwriter Mark Panick went in at the deep end and came up for air with four bleak songs.
The band went to work, locking into a rumbling groove for Sad Manifesto and applying monolithic distortion and prolonged reverb on God’s Favorite Crocodile. After this loud one-two, they turn it down a notch for Rabbit Run and Poultice. The latter is slow and almost soulful, with Panick unleashing his inner Tom Waits. The EP is brought to a close with a cover of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's Is That All There Is, reinventing it as a post-apocalyptic nightmare. It is easy to picture the band playing this in what's left of a theatre after things have gone South in a really bad way.
Razorhouse:
Mark Panick: vocals, guitars, synths, programming
Curtis Ruptash: bass
Jeff Harris: guitars
Brad Elvis: drums (Sad Manifesto)
Jim Dinou: synths (God's Favorite Crocodile)
Songs About Bunnies & Crocodiles is released via Underwear Factory Toy Records (limited edition yellow-in-green 10" Vinyl, CD, digital). Release date: December 11.
Side 1:- Sad Manifesto
- God’s Favorite Crocodile
- Rabbit Run
- Poultice
- Is That All There Is
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