Description:	LP on Sacred Bones
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Sacred Bones
	Price:	£14.89
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...according to our Business Lady on 04 December 2009.

'Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable' is a new offering from The Rebel, an alter-ego of Ben Wallers who you might know as the singer of the Country Teasers. It concerns a bunch of strange concepts loosely based on tales of a fucked up dystopian future. Ben Wallers narration is totally bizarre yet, as you can imagine, highly amusing. You've got tunes like 'Why must i pay' that tell the tale of Mr. Thatcher, a fictionalised future PM who is excoriated for the rising costs of tea, rent, drugs and sex. Then you've got 'Scarlett Johansen Conceiving the Design&8221' that tells of a future where scientist are replaced by hollywood starlets as the primary inventors in a future society.....very odd. Wallers narrations are (for the first time) backed by a full live band made of Country Teaser folks who forge mutant Fall-esque drum grooves and crazed guitar melodies into a consistent backing track. This is twisted genius, probably the best thing i've heard this week. I've said enough....

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What their label says...

Sacred Bones Records presents Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable—the next full-length from London, England’s The Rebel. The alter ego of Country Teasers’ Ben Wallers, The Rebel dates back to the tail-end of the 80’s—having existed side-by-side throughout the Teasers’ prolific career—often releasing records at a steadier clip than Waller’s main projectwith songs too madcap to fit into even their William- Burroughs-by-way-of-The-Residents take on country music. Wallers’ characteristic self-aware irony and surreal gender/race ruminations are still present but sitting backseat in this more fleshed out concept album about decaying conditions on the planet 3ar7h. Although Burroughs comparisons are inevitable, Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable could only have been scripted by The Rebel. The album’s narrator is in a band, has a valet named Mulholland, but inhabits an otherwiseunrecognizable dystopian landscape where evil science laboratories combat college radio personalities, and nuclear war with Iran is well underway. Important issues of today and tomorrow are touched on. In “Why Must I Pay?