Hamster Dragster - Songs of Loss &; Despair

Hamster Dragster returns with 3 devastatingly unique and timely reworkings of classics from Patti Smith, Zager & Evans and Woody Guthrie. Although the songs are all given radically different treatments their central message of loss and despair ring clear www.myspace.com/hamsterdragster “A deadbeat dialogue with destiny for the disenfranchised and the only thing you need to listen to right now. Record of the monthgo figure”Slo-gun.  'Hamster Dragster's increasingly complex live soundscapes should act as a clarion call to the increasing army of obsessive bedroom knob-twiddlers - its time to hit the road! - Skull Flower. 'The sound of cabin fever squeezed through a barbed wire fence whilst the sun sets across an empty sky. Strange and poignant stuff indeed.' Analogue Phaze. 'A throbbing portion of life spiked with the sound of happier times' – Rotavator. In The Year 2525 - tackling the doom-laden Zager and Evans original head on Hamster Dragster builds a compelling vision of a distopian future awash with swirling organs, sweeping strings and funerial fiesta trumpet licks. Pissing In A River - in equal measures claustrophobic and desolate, this stately reading of one of Patti Smith's greatest songs reverberates with the sense of calm foreboding that Hamster Dragster has become synonymous with. The track features a coruscating guitar solo by Serendipity Jin-Ho from South Korean freenoise pioneers Chang Wording Girl. This Land Is Your Land - a wistful and ironic take on Woody Guthrie's anthem to citizenship, nationhood and belonging, as Hamster Dragster conjures up a war-torn landscape awash with random acts of brutality committed in the name of progress creating an elegy for our times.

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