I have been trying to get ahold of this import LP for ages, but everytime the distributor had any listed, they instantly disappeared. At last though this record has been repressed and we've managed to grab a limited number of these for Crucial Blast, a recently released (2008) vinyl only album from the legendary Brainbombs released on the Lystring label, and limited to only 735 copies. What can I say? New BRAINBOMBS! Any of you who follow the Crucial Blast catalog updates know that this is one of my favorite bands, and up until this Lp came out, I thought that they were all done. Somehow they blurted out this new set last summer, and it's as heavy as anything from this gang of garage sludge thugs. If yer a Brainbombs addict too, it shouldn't take too much prodding to tell you that this is essential stuff, but heres the details: seven new songs, all of 'em from the band at their sludgiest and funkiest, each song a lumbering hypnotic drudge of blasting out-of-tune trumpet and deformed Stooges riffing, a single massive droning riff at the center of it all grinding onward incessantly, their power in repetition as they hammer that riff out over and over while the singer spews his bizarre misanthropic rants and murderous hallucinations. Most surprising moment is thesong "Stalker", which might be the "prettiest" Brainbombs song ever, a murky melodic jam with those brain damaged vocals softly speaking over it, like Brainbombs twisting an old 70's AM radio soft-rock hook into their own warped image. Other songs include "It's a Fucking Mess", "Behind a Tree", "Stinking Cocks", "Ooh What a Feeling", "Skinned Alive", "Turn to Shit", each song describing another atrocity performed at the hands of the singer, each song surrounded by menacing atmosphere and noisy filth, warped and crushing and oddly catchy in their own noxious way. Crucial.