Dead
Language (2003)Brand new MP3's.
Power Failure radio performances 04/05
| 1. slaugtering a lamb |
| 2. hit |
| 3. temple song |
| 4. hairpin |
| 5. always something |
| 6. secret title |
| 7. we're into krushgroove |
| 8. stepping out (cover of The Fall.) |
this is a website/CD-R only thing of the radio performances the band did recently. tracks 1-7 were done on WHPK Pure Hype 2/4/05, engineered by John Dunlevy assisted by Ben Edmonds & Pat Reisinger. Track 8 was done on WORT Hootennany with Dave Zero on 11/26/04. This is the last recordings done by the original line-up of Matt Fontaine, Greg Hamilton, Nathan Greer & Dan Worland.
Illinois Entertainer: Lo-fi garage rockers Blower check back in with Power Failure, a web site download release of radio performances did over the last year. The tracks are dissonant, raw, and unpredictable, like the band itself. Fans of this sort of thing should dig the tunes here. It's cool to hear the band, in all their torn-up splendor. File under "unusual but interesting".
Dead
Language (2003)
Dead Language is the signature sound of the avant-garage: art-rock, punk-rock and garage-rock mixing together joyously and fearlessly.
1. absolute zero
2. trickbag
3. check, double check
4. hangnail
5. carpetbomb
7. infinity clue
8. little wire
9. strange kind of luck
10. tokyo olympiad
| DEAD LANGUAGE Reviews: |
| The Onion Blower corners the market on Television references, right down to actually lifting riffs from Marquee Moon on "Absolute Zero", the lead track from their album Dead Language. The band's dual-guitar attack immediately brings to mind The way Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine obliterated the line between lead and rhythm with intertwining complexity. The Chicago band pulls it off well, though, and the energy they bring to the process is definitely worth checking out for fans of punk and post-punk mastery. |
| Splendid E-Zine |
| Illinois Entertainer: Fans of lo-fi garage rock eccentricity will find a lot to like in A Band Called Blower. Their CD, Dead Language is chock full of fuzzy guitars, distorted organ, and dissonant vocals, all without turning into punk. They have a strong classic rock influence as well as a touch of surfiness, which is always welcome. Their sound is unusual and endearing at once, and that hardly ever happens. |
| Rock Reviewer UK |
| Halo 17 (Aussie site) |
| South Of Mainstream |
click here to order Dead Language from deleted media
4
song EP (2000)
1. Tits Of The Furnace
2. Jimmy Lost His Head
3. Lost Sheep To Shepherd
4. Bruce Lee
Want MP3's of these songs? Click here.
compilation appearance
a cover of The Kinks, Father Christmas for Stringfarms, Christmas 2001
