CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Topping Bottoms
Album....: Towers Of Spines
Label....: Not Not Fun
Size.....: 61,10 MB
Source...: TAPE
Playtime.: 47:11 min
Genre....: Psychedelic
Release..: Jan-24-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 08:15 Towers Of Spines
02 13:27 Broken Spines
03 07:10 Synthetic Hips
04 18:19 Bitten Ankle
Release Notes:
DonÆt even bother trying to fathom the name,
itÆs a bottomless game. HereÆs what we do know:
Topping Bottoms are a loose liberated squad of
itinerant Tokyo drifters that traffic in a billowing,
burned out brand of post-millenial psych-loitering
that feels like someone slow-motion shattering a lava
lamp over yr skull and letting the fluorescent slime
drip-drop into yr eyes. That good/weird. Featuring
sometime members of an odd constellation of other
projects (Ainotamenishis, Evangelista, Duchesses, etc),
the semi-steady TB line-up (Kate, Masaki, Tracy, Ryo)
wields shadow-sleaze PSF guitar licks over dark drugged
drumming lightly splattered with Bore-junk electronic
sludge. Towers Of Spines is actually a reconfigured and
re-sequenced version of an earlier OOP self-released CDR
(on RyoÆs own Create Evil imprint) but packed out with a
fresh unreleased live cut tracked at a riotous spring
2008 performance. Tapes come in insane double-sided
fold-out silkscreened j-cards designed by Ryo which are
in turn housed in stunning exterior cassingle-style art
shells, all done up in a spectrum of shades and art-paper
variations. Basically: the visual quotient on this tape
is huge. Edition of 150.