Titmachine - We Build A New City/ 1989

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 25 Sep, 2008.

Titmachine are just the ticket after that soporific niceness, just the name is enough really. This place I used to work at had a big machine that made those air bubble things you sometimes get in your packaging (not bubble wrap, the big ones), when the nasty fascist supervisors left us alone for a minute we'd do massive jumps and dives into the piles of bubbles, it was fucking brilliant. I imagine a tit machine would be the same sort of thing only with silicone and nipples instead of air and plastic; since it could only really exist in heaven all the dead folks just spend all day diving into it like they're Scrooge McDuck in his money vault. Apparently this is the first 7" Stiltbreeze have put out in over ten years and 'We Build a New City' is pretty cool, all post-punk bass clanging and guitar shards topped with indecipherable screaming. Think somewhere between Shellac and Teenage Jesus and The Jerks. I like it. I think it's good.

For the lucky few who were floored by TITMACHINE's debut 7-inch (released earlier this year by Meeuw Muzak) comes this sophomore effort, loaded for bear and continuing their penchant for A-side covers. This time the ladies tackle Palais Schaumburg's "Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt" (or "We Build A New City" for those who don't speak in God's preferred tongue). The results are as devastatingly great as could be imagined. Stripped of its NDW gloss, Titmachine's reworking is more doused in raw Gueuze than refined Pilsner. In other words, them yeasts be wild, y'all! The flip is an awesome (and original) little jawdropper, remarkably akin to what The Shaggs might sound like tackling the Urinals' "Ack Ack Ack." Pressed on heliocentric black vinyl in a human(e) edition of less than one million copies, how chuffed can your summer be if you miss this chance to woggle in Titmachine's primitive, urpy grock? Don't tempt fate, buy now!.

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