Browse by Artist: DWARR

Artist:	DWARR
Title:	Animals
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 443CD

"Dwarr is Duane Warr. Dwarr put out the suicidal, droned out, and brilliant debut Starting Over in 1984, followed by Animals in 1986, Holy One in 2000, and Times Of Terror in 2003. Dwarr's masterpiece Animals tells tales of rage, obsession and vengeance. Duane worked at a plastic factory in South Carolina. Criticism of Starting Over sent him into a paralyzing depression. He decided to appease the people by making a country record. Folks were entertained but it did nothing for Duane. He planned his revenge and decided to make a Dwarr record for himself and no one else. He gave everything he had to Animals. He recorded on a Tascam 8-track in his trailer and played everything but the drums himself. There was no dubbing; all the tracks had to be played straight through. He could nail it and miss the last note and have to start all over again. The making of Animals was a supernatural, spiritual experience that came at a dark point in Duane Warr's life. Visions and hauntings took place during the making of the record. The lyrics are heavy and breathy and the guitar riffs are doom laden, brutal and heavy as hell. Dwarr created an impenetrably slow and heavy sludge of a record that promises to bludgeon you into a dark yet willing oblivion. There is nothing else like Animals."

Artist:	DWARR
Title:	Starting Over
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 496CD

"Posterity is a word that simply means 'all future generations.' Only sex, money, and power are stronger driving forces behind human creativity, and posterity is the thing that motivated Duane Warr to create his first album, Starting Over, in 1984. What makes a person in their twenties concerned about posterity? Hard living, a sense of mortality, the fear of dying before having done something worth a damn. And Duane Warr lived hard, oh yes. So what did he leave for posterity? A spectacular vision of the apocalypse--of starting over from zero. A vision of terror and suffering but also, perhaps, one of hope. (Warr would be born again nine years later.) Following on the heels of last year's acclaimed reissue of Dwarr's hard rock masterpiece Animals, Drag City and Yoga Records proudly present Duane Warr's first testament, a home-recorded rock-metal-blues shredder unlike anything else, a true outlier from the heart of the conformist 80s. Don't believe us? Take a look at his 'Screams of Terror' music video on YouTube and remind yourself what it feels like to be fucking amazed by something so different it's almost threatening. Call it outsider art if it makes you feel better."

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