Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling EP

Warehouse find. At the time of their arrival in 1985, Camper Van Beethoven's merging of punk, folk, ska, and world musics was truly a revelation. Self-described as "surrealist absurdist folk," the band formed in Santa Cruz around singer / songwriter David Lowery, with his dry humour and valley-boy voice sometimes confused for a fake Englishness. Their use of keyboards and violin would prove to be the band's hallmark at a time when alternative rock had yet to be invented, and indie rock was still shy of roots music or traditional elements. The song that kick-started the band's reputation, ‘Take The Skinheads Bowling’ is a now legendary two and a half minutes of chiming, goofy nonsense with references to Jah and incomplete rhymes. These unearthed original 1986 vinyl copies also include 5 further non-LP tracks ; ‘Epigram #5’, ‘Cowboys from Hollywood’, ‘Atkuda’, ‘Epigram #2’, and ‘Colonel Enrique Adolfo Bermudez’.

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