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FTR 403CS
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"(The) Scotch Broom Collective is an imaginary ensemble helmed (or once helmed) by Robert 'Bob' Fay, whose real-world units have included Sebadoh, Somerville Players, Deluxx, Crush, Baby Jesus Burnout, and so on. Bob's primary instrument is drums, but like his fellow American polymath Ben Vereen, Bob does not allow himself to be pigeon-holed. With Scotch Broom Collective he does it all, except perhaps for the tap dancing segments, which he has chosen to leave to others. The material on this tape (as on Scotch Broom's debut LP on UK's Golden Lab Records) was recorded by a miscellany of outfits with which Bob has been involved, and includes players like Conrad Capistran, Chuck P. Elea, Mark Perretta, Stephen Mathewson, Jason Lowenstein, Eric Matthews, Manny Lander, and Dan Ireton. As you might expect, the tunes are varied-as-shit, lo-fi-as-fuck and random-as-hell. Scotch Broom Ensemble's sound is dedicated to the unbridled freedom of otherness. So the tunes range from aggressive pokes into the cage of the free jazz bear to raw electric guitar instrumentals to wailing collabs with the great Dredd Foole. There is no slack, no waiting, and the tape unspools like a slacker's guide to the outer rim of the universe. It should probably be noted that the final Deluxx free form blowout on the tape was performed at the Paradise, opening for Sebadoh. Bob recalls, 'The packed house didn't know what to make of us?' What a bunch of goddamn squares. Insects & Water started coming together just before the Plague Years began, when Ted Lee innocently asked Bob if there were more good Scotch Broom tapes around. Now, after five long years of digging we have the answer. A solid, multivalent earful of strange yet somehow familiar raunch epistemology, delivered to your head by machines of loving grace. Perhaps we should all be asking better questions more frequently. Apparently they get results." --Byron Coley, 2025
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ROWF 053LP
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Amazing, whacked archival recordings from Bob Fay (ex Sebadoh/Deluxx) and a host of Western Massachusetts friends, including Conrad Capistran (TARP), Jason Loewenstein (Sebadoh), Ann Slinn (Somerville Players), and Mark Perretta (Deluxx/Deluxx Folk Implosion), initially slated for release on Thurston Moore and Byron Coley's Ecstatic Yod Actuel Ass Run series. Featuring great, snarky Byron Coley liner notes, the LP collects home cassette recordings from between 1987 and 1995 that offer a fantastic aural bridge between the grunge-offcut, Northeast American, lo-fi sludge-rock scene of the very early '90s and what later became known as "New Weird America." Stylistically all over the place and beyond brilliant, this record represents the nascent weirdo mind of a Golden Lab Records that, at the time, didn't even know it would come to be.
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