Flush It Friday: Baby, I Won’t Change
Except to become even better.
“I just miss my mom and dad / the way they gave all the love they had,” confesses Pat Flynn in his by-now unmistakable candour and bluntness, poetic and gutting in its bareness. I do not think, back in 2015 when Out of the Bloom came out on a little white cassette via Lockin Out Records, that any of us, let alone Flynn and his bandmates, imagined that Fiddlehead would become such a singular force for introspection, exuberance, and a wellspring of cooling tears on hot cheeks. Baby I’ll Change is three to-the-point heartbreakers. Let yourself miss who you do.
Still Beauty is a luscious and generous new collaboration between Past Inside the Present mainstays zakè and marine eyes, one that features a tidal pull towards reverence with an undercurrent of melancholy. zakè’s magisterial drones are an ebullient stage for the angelic play of marine eyes’ almost barely discernible yet still so embodied angelic vocals. Cynthia Bernard (marine eyes) explains that there are indeed lyrics here, words written and then sung before being texturally layered inside Zach Frizzells’ composition, and isn’t it a beautiful relief to have the immensity of her voice and still all the freedom of its intangibility?
It would be perverse to throw ourselves into the woodchipper, so let perversity have its day. We’ve got a 4-song split from Prevaricate and Disfigurement courtesy of Florida’s Crow’s Nest Records. Marketed as “CA/OH BRUTALITY,” I almost have little else to say except who in the hell taught these children how to slam with such hooky precision and salacious groove? The Prevaricate side is a downright tasteful blend of brutal death and slam played with a surprising amount of restraint. Disfigurement’s contribution is a rougher and more belligerent, less concerned with nuance and more interested in bricks to the brain.
Time to Flush!
TMP thanks to Stick and TTT thanks to Roldy. Where would we be without them?
Hayduke X has an exclusive track premiere from the forthcoming Nothingness. GLUNCH.
Toilet Radio 629 features Joe ‘n Jordan doin’ what they do best: reveling in the egregious public failings of the biggest losers in metal.
Toilet Radio 629 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Husk
365 threw us a nice track premiere from Torturerama, a group of Belgians frankly sick of the world’s bullshit.
Esteemed contributor Sean Ghoulson had the opportunity to interview legendary Butthole Surfer Paul Leary and made the most of it. We’re all buying a Hairway to Steven. Listen to it!
Falxifer hymned to the hills with this review of the latest from Poison Ruïn.
That’s what the week looked like in the Bowl! The weather has been merciful in Atlanta this week, but that is quickly about to change. Stay safe in the heat, y’all, because we have simply decided to do nothing about it. Drop your GBUs below. All my love.
