Almost blew my head clean off

Going through my growing music library a few surprises suddenly appeared. Browsing the web at the same time as converting my aprox. 1000 cd's into a more handy format sometimes makes thing vanish. And without warning, and usually when most needed, they reappear. The surprises that is. And just now today i found the incredible Archie Bronson Outfit's Derdang Derdang (Domino, 2006) and Man Man's Six demon bag (Ace Fu, 2006). Those two managed to rip me away from my latest favorits Death from above 1979, Infadels (five East London upstarts determined to fuse Talking Heads, Steve Reich, The Stooges and The Rolling Stones' funkier moments into tunes capable of both rocking clubs and engaging brains according to: http://www.wallofsound.net/usual.php) and Panico's Subliminal kill. And it almost cost me my head, lol. Been in a wow-kind-of-state all day. 2006 seems to be yet another year packed with surprises. And we're still only in the midst of april. He, looks like converting my whole collection will take quite some time. But then again, who cares when one can listen while doing it? Ah, a great musical year it will be for sure.

General info:

ARTIST: Man Man
TITLE: Six Demon Bag
LABEL: Ace Fu Records
GENRE: Indie
PLAYTIME: 0h 40m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-02-21

Track List
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1. Feathers 2:08
2. Engwish Bwudd 3:33
3. Banana Ghost 2:54
4. Young Einstein On The Beach 0:58
5. Skin Tension 3:46
6. Black Mission Goggles 4:59
7. Hot Bat 1:26
8. Push The Eagle's Stomach 3:39
9. Spider Cider 3:05
10. Van Helsing Boombox 3:44
11. Tunneling Through the Guy 5:25
12. Fishstick Gumbo 0:04
13. Ice Dogs 4:45

My sources Release Notes:

Somewhere between New York, Philadelphia, and the Holy Mountain, MAN MAN fastens together shellac, perfume, feathers, dirt, and blood, knits together Screaming Jay Hawkins, Etta James, 80s pop, Iggy Pop, Soda Popinski, Mexican funeral marches, religious cults, bad luck, and two-headed wolves to wrangle out something entirely else. With themes ranging from loss to love to mayhem and back, SIX DEMON BAG's narrative structure once again straddles the blurry line between order and chaos, the outsider elements from their debut THE MAN IN A BLUE TURBAN WITH A FACE sharpened into alternate universe pop hits; an album just as comfortably suited to the workplace desktop as to the Lord of the Flies campfire, post Piggy. Gravel-throated Ringmaster Honus Honus has assembed a motley crew of likeminded shamans to help perform Man Man's many song exorcisms;
sweaty, sexy swamp boogies rest easily alongside no-wavey guitars, melancholy funeral dirges, french new wave soundscapes, and exiled river-bed gypsy jams. At the core of the everything is a pop heart, albeit a wounded one, but nonetheless a heart that beats strong and confident and will not be satisfied until you are a full-on converted follower.

SIX DEMON BAG introduces a few new band members into the fold. The new Man Man converts include Sergei Sogay, Les Mizzle, Christopher Powell (aka Pow Pow ) of Icy Demons and Need New Body fame, and multi-instrumentalist Alejandro "Cougar" Borg. Sergei has a very nice beard, gentle eyes and exudes a natural, refreshing, unthreatening machismo. Alejandro is an accomplished ping pong player, has a penchant for shoestring headbands, is a Scott Joplin enthusiast and descends from a family of gypsy fur trappers. Les Mizzle has a confessed weakness for Cajun gumbo, women with concealed weaponry, and is from France. Pow Pow has Mojo. According to Pitchfork, "if you aren't excited by the above descriptions alone, you have no soul. At the very least, take yourself and your friends to one of the shows. . . for an experience unlike any other. It starts with white suits and tribal rituals, and only gets better from there.
Seriously."

Man Man has played shows with Arcade Fire, Fiery Furnaces, Okkervil River, DFA 1979, Mary Timony, Out Hud, Cat Power, and Deerhoof, and received critical accolades in The Fader, Magnet, Spin, Alternative Press, Village Voice, Urb, Time Out NY, Pitchfork, and more.

Crawl back to the cave with Man Man. Sleep with the wolves. Ace Fu proudly releases Man Man's second LP, Six Demon Bag, on February 21, 2006.

THE MEN MEN:
Honus Honus -- gravel pit forethroat, primitive Rhodes,
science Sergei Sogay -- percussion, synths, brown bass, vibes, caveman throat
Les Mizzle -- science, bass, percussion, color, smooth throat
Blanco - trumpet, dirt guitar, piano, clarinet, cello, psycho throat, science
Alejandro “Cougar” Borg - marimba, trumpet, snake guitar, manic throat
Pow Pow - sexual trap kit, bedroom eyes, coyote throat, spirit healer
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Artist: Archie Bronson Outfit
Album: Derdang Derdang
Bitrate: 226kbps avg
Label: Domino Records
Genre: Alternative
Size: 67 megs
Playtime: 0h 38min 43sec total
Rip date: 2006-02-07
Store date: 2006-03-13

Track List:
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01. Cherry Lips 4:17
02. Kink 2:43
03. Dart For My Sweetheart 4:30
04. Got To Get (Your Eyes) 3:14
05. Dead Funny 4:12
06. Modern Lovers 3:20
07. Cuckoo 4:10
08. Jab Jab 2:53
09. How I Sang Dang 3:46
10. Rituals 3:22
11. Harp For My Sweetheart 2:16

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