There's a new CD by The Deep Freeze Mice available from www.cordeliarecords.co.uk -
a new version of their 1981 second album "Teenage Head in My
Refrigerator", which hasn't been available for 22 years. This edition
has vastly improved sound quality, an album's worth of bonus tracks and a
twenty page booklet with hitherto unseen pictures and unread writing.
To
accompany this monumental event there is also a whole new album of rare
tracks from the period which you can get here for nothing: http://thedeepfreezemice.bandcamp.com/
Here is an awful review of "Teenage Head" from rateyourmusic.com where some swine has the temerity to call it vacuous:
At their below average best, i.e. in a track such as
I Like Digestive Biscuits In My Coffee and Esther they are a strange
mix of funk post punk (probably APB being their nearest reference point)
and slightly less irrelevant (and as equally less relevant) Half Man
Half Biscuit.
Although indie electronica darlings MGMT tend to
name drop them as an influence in every interview they ever do, despite
sounding nothing like them, it is hard to see what genuine relevance
they have inasmuch that intermittently try to be funny but generally are
not (although God is hilarious and guaranteed to drive god botherers
who try to bother you from your door!) and try to be serious but have
neither the lyrical ability or musical ability to struggle free from
being vacuous.
Perhaps being vacuous is the point…in which case
they succeed with immense aplomb apart from in the albums only really
genuine stand out, Vera which has a sort of lo-fi weird Ariel Pink
homemade in the bedroom type feel to it.
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