The 1999 album The Truth Is A Fucking Lie has been one of the hardest Luttenbachers albums to track down, but we finally managed to get some copies of this for C-Blast. Like I'm always saying, this is another essential entry in the Luttenbachers catalog, but it's also quite a bit different from their other records in the concept behind these recordings and, specifically, in how the music on The Truth Is A Fucking Lie was constructed. The music that makes up the foundation of the album comes from recordings of live performances of the band playing at different venues and with different lineups, but where you might expect this to be yer typical live album, the tracks are actually heavily messed with and manipulated, and become something else entirely. Weasel Walter took these recordings and combined different performances together into a single track, or overdubs creepy ambient electronics or all-new percussion tracks. On some pieces, performances that feature two completely different lineups of the Luttenbachers are mashed together into a totally new mutation of the band, and it results in some of the most nightmarish sounding music I've heard from the group. Freaked out improvisation collides with weird orchestral synths, blown-out noise rock , and alien-sounding tape collages, fast paced free-jazz skree thrashes out of spluttering landscapes of dying computers, and evil clouds of scraping violin strings, rattling percussion and rusted horns drift overhead. Two very different cover songs appear here,"Black Perversion" from underground black/noise mutants Havohej and "De Futura" by French prog legends Magma, and towards the end there's a killer track titled "Medley" that features the Falzone/Pisarri/Walter lineup taking older, jazz-based compostions from past Luttenbachers lineups and reconfiguring them as an epic wasteland of dissonant, thrashing no wave/grind. This ends up being one of the Luttenbachers more abstract works, and fans of Zorn-connected projects like Last Exit and Naked City who havent given the Luttenbachers earlier punk-jazz records a chance might want to check this one out. The disc comes in a very minimalist package, with just a single sided insert card in the jewel case, and a wraparound sleeve that fits inside of a resealable sleeve over the jewel cases that has the track listing and track info.