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FOLDED SHIRT  Tiny Boat / Mouth Clock  7" VINYL   (Fashionable Idiots)   4.00


���� Another slab of loopy, brain-damaged punk on the Fashionable Idiots imprint, Folded Shirt's Tiny Boat / Mouth Clock 7" delivers a two-song shot of Beefheartian snot from this Cleveland area outfit, made up of members of the equally weird Homostupids, Darvocets, and Mr. California And The State Police. These guys have remained pretty obscure within the contemporary punk landscape, but I've dug their stuff ever since I stumbled across the self-titled LP that came out back in 2011. The band's weirdo punk has a naive, possibly drug-addled sound, but it also crawls under my skin; with their nonsensical lyrics, squiggly guitars and atonal leads, the drummer's shambling percussive attack, those quirky melodies honking and squealing through "Mouth Clock", it all comes together into this infectious, autistic mess that to my ears sounds somewhere in between the puerile weirdness of latter-day Sloth, the terminally silly "tardcore" of Sockeye, and even Flipper at their sloppy, stumbling best.