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01. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - Fly
02. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - The Fear
03. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - Bedlam's Blend
04. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - If Things Don't Get Better
05. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - Four Roses for Jack
06. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - Your Heart
07. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - Won't Make It
08. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - Pressed for Illumination
09. DREDD FOOLE & BEN CHASNY - Losing My Mind
ARTIST
TITLE
Drunk with Insignificance
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
FTR 138LP FTR 138LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/10/2014

This album has been a long time coming. Dredd and Ben first talked about collaborating back in the late '90s and it's now 2014 and the goddamn thing has only just arrived. Was the wait worth it? You bet your teeth it was. While this album would have been pretty great if they'd done it back in the day, the fact it has been allowed to age and grow of its own accord lends the project a richness and beauty beyond easy comparison. This specific album grew out of some shows Dredd and Ben have done together over the past couple of years. The communication between the two of them was deep and crisp, even from the very first note they played together. I don't recall if there'd been any rehearsing at all, but Ben's electric guitar was weaving around and through Dredd's vocals and acoustic strings as though he'd been doing it since he was a pup. Having seen Mr. Foole perform in a wide variety of situations over the past 33 years, I can assure you that he has rarely been in such telepathic company. From the extreme blabbermouth lockjaw of "Pressed for Illumination" to the relatively quiet melancholia of "Four Roses for Jack," the sounds on Drunk with Insignificance are utterly maxist. Dredd's songs have never sounded better, and Ben pulls an exquisite raft of riffs out of his sombrero. If you have a fondness for either of these legends of the contemporary underground, you owe it to yourself to check out this collaboration. It will shiver your timbers down to their very roots. Beautiful. Edition of 300.