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Losing The War Inside Our Heads is the 17th official album by The Flying Luttenbachers. It is a desolate, bracing collection of music showcasing five varied new tracks of intense, composed modernism. The previous release Terror Iridescence (GODREC 069LP, 2022) was an abstract horrorscape of alienated dissonance marking founding member Weasel Walter's transition back to the original base of operations, Chicago. Following four albums with New York based personnel since reviving the Flying Luttenbachers in 2017 after a decade long hiatus, Losing The War is a transitional work like 2003's epic Systems Emerge From Complete Disorder, one of the most complex and ambitious chapters in the entire saga. Largely conceived and executed by Walter solo as a stopgap between phases, the dark, rigorous constructions here are tightly sculpted and scripted examples of the "brutal prog" aesthetic the group pioneered in the early 2000s. From the cathartic, asymmetrical riffing of "The Solution is the Problem," the quasi brutal death metal-influenced jigsaw puzzle "Id Vomit," to the endless corridor of minimalistic, epic doom, "Crawling 1000 Meters Across A Cold Stone Floor Towards The Forbidden," the mood is suffocatingly malevolent and oppressive, crammed full of bizarre twists, coruscating guitar abrasion, and relentless structural momentum.
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After the magnificent Negative Infinity (GODREC 062LP), which is easily one of their best and most furious works they have ever done, The Flying Luttenbachers return with completely different musical approach. Something that can be described as kind of open-form, the record contains two one-sided pieces, almost in tradition of old prog-rock records. Hustle and bustle heavy and complex riffing from previous records, turned into high intensity droning fields...
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2019 release. The Flying Luttenbachers' Imminent Death is the second release by the seminal cult band since its reincarnation in 2017. Imminent Death is very different in many ways from the previous Luttenbachers releases, but then again, you could consistently say that about most of them. The group has always followed the direction set by its leader Weasel Walter, and reflects his desire to create music of a determinately less common quantity in any given era. The Flying Luttenbachers have always been staunchly committed to making artistic statements which defy current trends and seek the expression of personal truth, mania, and iconoclasm. This offering is a record Mr. Walter has pondered and thought about making for 30 years -- finally, here it is, and it is quite a cathartic exorcism. Personnel: Weasel Walter - drums; Tim Dahl - bass, guitar; Matt Nelson - tenor saxophone; Brandon Seabrook - guitar.
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2021 release. Negative Infinity is a sort of return-to-form in a regard, featuring six tightly scripted doses of what they call "brutal prog" -- the tag Weasel coined in the early 2000s to describe an elite breed of intense, complex bands who emphasized harshness and intensity over the typical prog-rock flutes and fairy positivity. This is prog for the apocalypse, not your uncle.
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After more than ten years, The Flying Luttenbachers are back. The Flying Luttenbachers' Shattered Dimension is the first offering by the seminal cult band since 2007. The current New York City based version of the group on this recording features stalwart leader and primary composer Weasel Walter on drums, saxophonist Matt Nelson (GRID, Elder Ones), bass guitarist Tim Dahl (Child Abuse, Lydia Lunch), and guitarist Brandon Seabrook. During The Flying Luttenbachers' prolific initial 1991 to 2007 sprint, the ever-morphing ensemble explored and challenged the parameters of aggression, dissonance, freedom, hyper-structure, and speed across many idioms ranging from hyperactive free jazz/improvisation, blistering no wave/extreme metal noise infused rock, and ambitiously composed brutal prog. Shattered Dimension was recorded one afternoon in November 2018 at Seizures Palace (better known as Martin Bisi's legendary B.C. Studios to some) with engineer Jason LaFarge. The album opens with a succinct bang in the form of the chaotic blast beat-plus-melody structural form "Goosesteppin'". After the unison melodic statement, the foursome rampages full-speed ahead through the changes, evoking the whiskey-and-cocaine drenched early era mayhem of improv supergroup Last Exit. Four frantic minutes later, the Luttenbachers rein things back a bit, with the extended harmolodic group improvisation of "Cripple Walk". The third composition on the record is the stately, ominous "Epitaph", 13 unlucky minutes of monolithic repetition, overlaid with frantic, destructive free playing in an episodic narrative. "Sleaze Factor" offers a bit of relief in the form of a prominent groove, another harmolodic venture, again influenced overtly by the jazz output of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, Columbia Records' era Arthur Blythe, and the early James Blood Ulmer records. The final cut on this album is the 23-minute long form called "Mutation". It is a succession of abstract blocks highlighting specific sonic activity, organized as a surreal journey through immorally uplifting atonality and repetition. Gatefold sleeve.
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