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While I've enjoyed every Starving Weirdos release, this release may be the best I've heard. A side project under the name RV Paintings featuring one of the two Weirdos and two of his brothers, Trinity Rivers quells the expansive oozing drones of the Weirdos duo, turning them into drifting, grey industrial soundscapes, like Labradford or some other 90s Kranky artist doing Morricone or maybe scoring a screening of Metropolis (the silent movie, not the anime). Rubbed wine glass lips and echoed animal-like cries swirl around the space like a fog. Little light enters, but it refracts against the hard steel structures protruding out of the guitar strings and amplifiers, creating a heavy spectrum of obtuse tones. If this were a CDR run, it would be long gone and available to only those who deal with (or to) the Weirdos family personally, but Root Strata has made this a full CD release with handsome (and fitting) greytone covers. Worth it.

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