Bellmer Dolls- The Diva

Dog Print

2005

Bellmer Dolls

Y Pants- Little Music

99 Records

1980

No Wave from the golden age on the venerable 99 Records.  Y Pants are often associated with Glenn Branca with whom Barbara Ess had a long standing personal and musical relationship- the two played together in both Theoretical Girls and The Static and Branca produced this single and released a full length on his Neutral label.  If No Wave sought to reduce "Rock" music to it basest elements, Y Pants took it one step further by jettisoning the usual rock instrumentation in favor of a battery of little instruments such as toy piano, ukulele, and toy drums.  The effect is a sort of naif primitivism that sits well with many of the other early 99 releases (Liquid Idiot, Bush Tetras) and at the same time hints at the more outright funky direction the label (and scene in general) would begin to move in with groups like ESG and Liquid Liquid.  Kicks off with a cover of the Stones' 'Off The Hook'.

Little Music

Tyvek/Cheveu Split

S-S Records

2007

A split release to coincide with a joint US trek last summer.  Detroit's Tyvek deal in the sort of attitude heavy, no fidelity scuzz that the midwest seems to spew out every 15 years or so.  It takes some cajones to flog a past dead horse like Punk Rock anymore, but Tyvek have managed to turn out a few singles worth of greatness that should be enough to placate even the most jaded curmudgeons out there.  I haven't heard enough from Parisian Art-Rock weirdos Cheveu to completely wrap my head around what exactly it is they do.  The handful of tracks I've heard haven't provided any real answers, just raised more questions.  This go around they come across like a team of Mexican wrestlers trying to cover Chrome tunes or something.  That description would probably sound retarded without a record like this to back it up.

Tyvek/Cheveu