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Vinyl LP pressing. Historically, rock music has often been thought of as an exception to art - as if it's status as non-painting makes it ordinary - and occasionally still, rock ænÆ roll is viewed as the work of aberrant groups of aggressive men. But Bombay Beach turns out to be what contemporary art has become: genre mixing, non-solipsistic, and in many ways free. The band calls this the time of a "New American Rage," and they're turning to creative mythology and artistic community to repurpose it. The Death Tape rage has a certain level-headedness behind it, and it comes through in a way that best befits change: in collective raucous fun, beauty in the atonal, and spontaneity that signify the subversion of the everyday story. Many of the sounds and lyrics here are in service of a bigger narrative the band is currently working up for a film.
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1. Black Overture 2. Slab City 3. Ships 4. Murder USA 5. Consumed By the City 6. Lip Oil 7. Singularity Chorus 8. Wood Shampoo 9. Mickey Rata 10. Breakneckbreakbottle 11. A Bug in the System 12. Thee Mote 13. Desert Chase 14. Future Fever 15. I;I 16. New American Rage 17. Sonny 18. Deep City Chase