if you have been reading my posts here for awhile, you know i am a big fan of virginia industrial punk duo
buck gooter. these classification-bucking road dawgs, true anti-pillars of the underground, have been a band now for ten years and for that momentous occasion the luminous
feeding tube records has seen fit to release '
first decade', a compilation of ten songs, one from each year of
buck gooter's existence.
it's a really fun record to listen to as it lets you hear this band mutate and grow at a metastatic creative rate around a consistent core. the home recorded opening track '
cigarats' might sound naive compared to the deep,
don zientara produced, bleak, industrial isolation of their newer material such as '
consider the grackles' (the title track from my favorite BG record) but you can hear the thing that makes this band, a life affirming, organically psychedelic anger that is directly opposed to rot, shit, and complacent-bland-whateverness (to me a very similar psychic vibe as original DC hardcore) from the very first mechanical drum beat and crunchy wave of guitar. it's often been true that if you go to a BG show with 4 bands total you walk away thinking 'i just saw buck gooter and 3 other bands...' if you know what i mean. i'm still waiting for someone to convince there is a more punk band in existence. here's to another decade.
pre-order the LP from
feeding tube records (check out the description, better than what i wrote, by frequent BG tour mate j. frye of
PC worship).
