Rubber Mate - Cha Boi b/w Hogtied - 7

Labels: Total Punk
Review by: Alex Deller

‘Cha Boi’ opens with this great, queasy, slobber-chinned bassline before galloping into chaotic disarray. There’s a lot of hyperactive screeching, as though Doc Dart were trapped in a sewer and crying desperately for help. Feedback pisses greasily through it all, representing another unkind goad heaped upon all the rest. ‘Hogtied’ is similar stuff, but faster and offering less of the lurch. It seems a touch more together at first glance, but ultimately crashes blindly about the place and collapses face-down in a pool of its own foul-smelling bubbles. Horrible! What does Cleveland do to these people?