New Batch – Bicephalic
1.14.16 by Mike Haley

Bicephalic continues their split tape series of gonzo squeal with another double dose of noisenik unions. This match up marks numbers three and four in the run, which will max out at eight cassettes. The artwork for these puppies, hand painted by August Traeger, is god damn dazzling. Not just for these new ones, but all of em. Go ahead and check. I’ll wait….. Ya see? That’s reason enough to collect all eight, and thankfully the jams are hella dope as well.

Promute tackle their side like hyper-focused bed bugs navigating through the coils of an overused mattress (you know those things don’t last forever, right?). Fifteen minutes of itchy, speckled sounds corkscrew at random, vibrating from junkstriments and metallic massages. Their partner for this adventure is Homogenized Terrestrials, who opt for an oily infestation. You know those times when you accidentally spill a mason jar of slugs and jellyfish parts into an oscillating fan on low? You don’t? That’s NEVER happened to you? Then you’ll just have to trust me that this is what that sounds like. Seriously, you’ve never done that???

Carl Kruger (possibly related to Freddy? Though I think they spell it differently. Still too scary!) riffles through the junk drawer, sips on empty Big Gulps, and searches for a pen that still has ink remaining for a gnarly span of gummy noise. The viscid experience is almost sad. “For the love of god, someone give Carl a drink! Please give him a pen!” I literally shouted that while listening to this track. And by literally, I mean figuratively. NJ9824 goes for it on the flip side. I used to love that show as a kid. Confession time: I am a GIANT Luke Perry nut, but man has shit changed. Gone is the day-to-day drama of privileged California youths, instead replaced with cleaved and minced audio fragments, Vibrant and void of attention. The occasional six second piano rasp brewed into sensory bombardment doesn’t slow things down. I guess kids today just don’t get Luke Perry?

Both of these cassettes are C30’s, limited to 50 copies. Grab them while they last from Bicephalic.