Labels: Bad Egg
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Picture the scene: at the breakfast table of a suburban home in the West Midlands.
“Hello son, what’s the name of that band you spend all your spare time doing?”
“Stinky Wizzleteat. We just put out a split 7″ with a band called Fuck Your Haircut.”
“Get out.”
So anyway, these kids have already successfully screwed all hope of shifting units and filling out arenas thanks to those names, but the world’s loss is my gain as I wrap my lugholes around this.
Stinky Wizzleteat is a bass-less trio making an interesting line in noise-rock intermingled with sludgy stuff. “Stoner Moms” kicks off in a nippily rhythmic style with an Arabic-inflected spiralling guitar line with some seriously odd tone. The vocals come riding in, yelling and vomiting about something, and then the track stick-shifts into some satisfyingly crunchy sludge. One band that SW totally remind me of is cult Sub Pop duo godheadSilo thanks to that aforementioned guitar tone. If this had come out of Smegma Studios in the mid-90’s, I wouldn’t have been surprised. Chuck in some Eyehategod and you officially have what can only be termed as a good time.
Fuck Your Haircut provide a nice contrast with their biscuit-tin production job thrash. They have a non-annoying sense of humour, and it all sounds suitably chaotic. I think it might take more spins for the songs to really stick in my mind but they certainly ain’t bad.
Bad Egg Records
Stinky Wizzleteat
Fuck Your Haircut