Translated as "Elephant Tranquilizer", Tranquilizante Del Elefante is the second slugfest from scrappy noise thugs EL BUZZARD, which serves up a mere six songs in eleven minutes, which isn't nearly enough for us. I thought their last one, Gringa, was a fucking awesome barrage of filthy lo-fi dropout sludge in the tradition of FLIPPER and early NIRVANA with about 2 tons of extra noise piled on, and this preceding EP is just as good. Featuring former members of seminal Cali hardcore outfit MOHINDER, EL BUZZARD immolate their trails and fuck things up royally with a drugged out take on post-Amphetimine Reptile rock, everything coated in a sheen of distortion scum and feedback, incoherent throat scraping vocals, the really heavy riffs slowed down a la MELVINS but with more in the way of doped effects splattered over everything. The six songs on this EP are smeared in raunchy crush and the production is really raw and dirty in an 80's hardcore way, but it fits perfectly with their stripped down, down and out, burn it all down attitude. It's the kind of anti-feelgood heaviosity formerly peddled by units like JESUS LIZARD, -16-, EYEHATEGOD, early NIRVANA, TODAY IS THE DAY, KARP, UNSANE, et al, but with their own uniquely diseased lurch. I just listened to this 5 times in a row and I still need more. Comes in jewel case packaging with killer artwork from Sfaustina.