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Artist:	MELT-BANANA
Title:	Teeny Shiny
Label:	A-ZAP RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	AZ 003CD

"Melt-Banana describe their third self-released album as 'pop and nice,' a claim to which numerous incredulous subscribers to the band's mailing list have replied, 'No pop!' and 'Extreme, please!' This angular Pythagorean-core HC quartet supposes that the words 'pop' and 'nice' have slightly different nuances those outside their native Japan are failing to see; perhaps they mean 'pop' not in the Celine Dion sense, but in the Andy Warhol sense, 'nice' not as in smashing a bunch of garbage together and expecting fans to swallow it out of habit, but as in well-crafted, hairball mania. Even as the band acknowledges that Teeny Shiny is punk, noisy, screeching, and fast, they steadfastly maintain that it is pop and nice for them."

Artist:	MELT-BANANA
Title:	Speak Squeak Creak
Label:	A-ZAP RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	AZ 004CD

"Produced by Melt-Banana and K. K. Null of Zeni Geva, engineered by Steve Albini, recorded in a Chicago basement, June 1994, the 24-track 30-minute Speak Squeak Creak was originally released in '94 by Null's Nux Organization label, was sporadically available throughout the decade, and is now reissued by the band's own label -- on vinyl for the first time. The band for this recording consisted of Yasuko, Agata, Rika mm' and Sudoh. They have long been admired by everyone -- from the highest brows within the ranks of the avant garde such as John Zorn and Mike Patton, to shorts-draggin' munters who need to carry their wallets on a leash -- for their riotous cacophony in which free jazz, math-rock, speed-metal, and grindcore all enjoy equal opportunity employment."

Artist:	MELT-BANANA
Title:	Bambi's Dilemma
Label:	A-ZAP RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	AZ 007CD

"On their sixth full-length studio release Melt Banana exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the 'rock' region. Summing up an entire album, and one as diverse as Bambi's Dilemma, with such a pedestrian qualifier is risky business, agreed, but it seems to fit like never before. The band, of course, refuses to accommodate any such pigeonholing: 'Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!' The truth is Melt-Banana make music as they please, relying solely on their own maverick talent to get them where they need to be. Bambi's Dilemma's eighteen tracks careen from extreme, fast-blast attacks to more serene moments (usually reserved for non-album releases) to the band's revolutionary new, guitar and bassless 'Theremin-core.'"

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