Browse by Artist: WEIRD WAR

Artist:	WEIRD WAR
Title:
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 205CD

"Weird War features Ian Svenonius and Michelle Mae from The Make-Up as well as Neil Michael Hagerty, late of Royal Trux (and early for the rest of his career). Originally conceived as an artistic movement, Weird War turned to music and terror when the static medium proved unsuitable. A volatile organization, its means of production are intentionally unorthodox: 'We pick material at random ? a poem by the painter Marsden Hartley, a caricature by a newspaper cartoonist, Goldberg, some banal slogans. Someone gave us a photo of a woman's leg in a too-tight shoe; we add some equivocal riffs and lyrics from our own files.'"

Artist:	WEIRD WAR
Title:	If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 251CD

"Weird War previewed this new LP/CD, their most mature work, with the hit single 'AK-47'. It outlined a radical inversion of time contracting trends and imperialist savagery in a disco manifesto which drew from prophets such as Bohannon and Bumble Bee Unlimited. This gave us a stunning glimpse into a future which has now appeared and is upon us; a universe of guitar solos layered upon Mao quotations, electric sitar exploding over runic incantations, chanted ruminations on the implications of work, love and sex and a Hathaway guided tune regarding the future mummy-style curse of Babylon."

Artist:	WEIRD WAR
Title:	Illuminated by the Light
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 288CD

"Weird War (neé Scene Creamers) have re-grooped and reconfigured once again after last year's startling, scary and critically psychosed If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em. Though recorded at the same studio (Key Club), the two records will look at each other from within the bin as suspicious progeny do, each doubting the paternity of the other. Instead of the dark and fuzzy psych stomp of ...Beat 'Em or the down home agit-poetry of I Suck On That Emotion, Weird War have begun to explore the esoterica they hinted about last time, but this time with a leaner, cleaner chassis which features new group-member, super drummer Sebastian Thomson (of Trans Am /Trans Champs/Fucking Am/Frequency fame)! He joins guitarist/master musician Alex Minoff, bassist/vocalist/etc. Michelle Mae and singer Ian Svenonius (note spelling), the loved and beloathed establishment of this cranky, creaky pa/ma po-mo su-grou."

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