Gotta admit, when I first threw this newer 7" on from Philly shitstarters Clockcleaner, the a-side jam "Frogrammer" caught me as quite a curveball; expecting some of the wasted, aggro noise rock that made their The Hassler and Nevermind so fucking crucial, I'm instead smacked in the mug by the jangly, adrenaline laced guitars, ramshackle drums and terminally infectious melodic hook of "Frogjammer". Is that even Clockcleaner's John Sharkey singing? What the fuck - he sounds like a cross between Roger Miller from Mission Of Burma and fuckin' Glenn D. circa Static Age. This is pretty rockin'...turns out that this is actually a cover of a song from Remo Voor whom I'm completely in the dark about. Really new wavey, arty early-80's sound going on here. Very cool, proves along with their most recent album on Load that Clockcleaner are far more than some mere Am Rep worshipping gang of noise thugs.

Though noise thuggery is EXACTLY what you get on the b-side, the sludgy stompathon of "Early Man" - this is more like the heavy reverb damage of their Load album, a swaggering rock jam drenched in distortion and damaged amp noise, a single pounding riff repeated over and over, catchy and fucked up and surrounded by cavernous noise. Sharkey's wails and howls inside some sort of cramped echo chamber, and the song develops a nauseating scraping headtilt by the last minute or so. A terrific dose of antisocial noise-rock from the golden era of the early 90's; think Cows, Laughing Hyenas, Jesus Lizard, Halo Of Flies, etc.