When two bands come together, what do they make? Beautiful music? A split EP? In the case of Asian Babes (who aren’t Asian) and Future Glue, a SexXx Tape. Why? Because it’s released on cassette tape (and download), and it’s a veritable orgy of contrasting yet complimentary guitar-driven racket that’s all about the DIY underground aesthetic and the art, and not giving a crap about mainstream or even particularly widespread acceptance. Which means, of course, that this is the apex of alternative cool.
Asian Babes throw a whole heap of stuff into the blender, and the result is pretty wild. ‘Rosalee’ sound like Shonen Knife jamming a new song in the rehearsal room, while ‘Dry Burger’ is a 40-second garage punk thrashabout. I can only imagine what it might be about. The shouty rockabilly racket of ‘John Cooper Clark’s’ is big on energy, and ‘Sting’ does just that.
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It’s very much an EP of two halves: while Asian Babes pack four songs into four and a half minutes, Future Glue fill eight minutes with a single track. Described as ‘a group of steaming Glaswegians making a big racket of powerful and energetic, rockabilly and blues tinged punk’, their offering is a sprawling psychedelic beast of a tune. As the tempo picks up so does the venom and then it all explodes into a frenzy of cymbals and reverb. Steaming they may be (that’s a Glasgae heng), but there’ warped genius at play here too.
SexXx Tape Online
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