GUINEA WORMS - Duct Tape You LP

Limited edition silk-screen sleeve.

Bonus Good Times Rock-n-Roll Club patch (or sticker if you prefer). Includes d/l code.

Highest recommendation.

Among this scribes favourite bands of the past 20 years, chances are you've heard us bang on about the downer punk storytelling of Columbus, OH's GUINEA WORMS. You cannot imagine my excitement upon discovering a New York label had reissued one of their rare CD-r's!

"On a muggy summer night in 2001, Guinea Worms descended into the basement with a case of PBR, carton of Winston Lights, and framed photo of George Jones. Months later they emerged, hungover but otherwise unscathed, and presented Duct Tape You.

The people who made music in Columbus, Ohio at the turn of the millennium were bartenders, graduate students, record store clerks, performance artists, and gas station attendants. Practice spaces were abundant and affordable. Musical influences came from used LPs found at thrift stores and record shops along High Street. Bands played nightly in dive bars, art galleries, and backyards.

Within this “scene,” the Guinea Worms played and recorded music that defied description. Experimental country? Post-punk pop rock with (occasional) synthesizers? High lonesome heavy metal?

22 years later, Duct Tape You still refuses to be categorised. Bouncing rocker “Nothin’ to Say” suggests that you turn up the volume of your dance, but not so loud that the neighbors call the cops. The whispered vocals and fuzzed-out bass in “Till You Hear Me” recreate the feeling of staying up too late reading 1980s horror novels and drinking Royal Crown Cola. The woozy ballad “Jenny Jones” uses aching reverb and Bill’s soaring guitar solos to make a country-fried plea to heal the singer’s hangover. The interstate hit “Hello from Ohio” is a scribbled pop-punk postcard from the Heart of It All. Hello! Hello! Children of all ages love to pump their fists to “Spring Rage,” a galloping ditty which may or may not be about the aftermath of a bitchin’ frat party."