Snackhouse

ASM 004

im Vertrieb von / distributed by:
Indigo

LP 9033-1

CD 9033-2

Dexter

Snackhouse

Get hold of a helmet and plunge into the garage surf'a'billy world called Dexter, a wound up showcase of pure psycho easy and a fine example of the quick.

Dexter tuned up with acts like: Speedball Baby, the Ex, the Onyas, the Cheater Slicks, the Drags, the Donnas, Scared Of Chaka and the Loudmouths.

The record is titled 'Snackhouse' and contains 18 songs recorded on four different locations, it lasts 38 minutes and is sparklin' brilliant. There are the take-charge thick thundertunes from the cd.demo Chevron, salty frozen mini-girlshuffles and sweaty bullfight pasodobles from two different four-track sessions and on top of it all lay a couple of ruthless one-track instant harakiri Dexters, tasty like the staggering billy allscore snacklounge sound itself.




PRESSE / PRESS

Deadbeat Magazine [1999]: "If their 702 Records 7" saw the Dexter loonies rattling the iron bars of the Swampabilly Asylum, then Snackhouse finds them after they lifted the keys to the gates off a snoozin' guard, free to run amok through the streets. Returning on the German All Score Media label with Snackhouse, the Dexter Bros. give us 18 new, off-kilter Surrealabilly/No Wave blooze quickies full of tinny Fender twang, manic and deadly shaking drum precision. A thin, jumbled mix between the junkyard whap of Doo Rag, the lounge cool of Gallon Drunk, Surreal Feel era Kim Salmon and other diverse influences.  Dutch urban Macumba rock'n'roll with an strong sense of the good stuff of ages past (rockabilly and all other things Cramped, as well as the Birthday Party being the major points of departure), all given odd, somewhat psychedelic twists.

These lo-fi moodists use a quite stripped-down approach (guitar, bass, marraccas, drums), but the atypical mutation of their influences and a seeming disregard for genre eticette keep things very much on the fresh side of the garage. There is something nervy and decontructionistic going on here - uneasy, primitive. Lots of reverb, feedback and rockin' twang courtesy of Dexter guitarist Marcel. Singer Barts' crazed vocals highten the edgy feel, and as his lyrics are often difficult to fully deciper, this further escalutates the mystery and strangeness of their overall sound.

... Highlights include the incredible "Alike Deer", with it's swampy feel and folk-round vocals in the same tradition as the Violent Femmes used in "I Hear the Rain" over jagged reverb chops, sparse drumthump and rattlesnake marracacas. "Hey, Hey", a frentic Voidoid-like punk stab, heads straight into "Billy's Lounge Sound," with Marcel's guitar runs and Mineo's usual fiery percussion accompanying some kinda Spanish-language talk-radio broadcast. And let us not forget the cartoon buckaroo psychobilly whoop of "Powered Johnny." Original, rockin', and recommended!"

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