Various Artist – Release The Bats: The Birthday Party as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G
Limited to 500 copies on A/B grey/black split, C/D grey/clear split colored vinyl.
Spawned from the Cave that set the standard for mischievous, perverse, raucous punk music in the form of Australian band The Birthday Party, Three One G Records has set out to pay tribute with Release the Bats. This album is a compilation of covers by varied acts from Cattle Decapitation to Some Girls to Ssion, each undoubtedly influenced in one way or another by The Birthday Party’s wildly entwined goth-punk-jazz-blues sensibilities. Hidden in Das Oath’s feedback and Rah Bras’ unsettling synth lines lie curious, well-written, dark stories, and it’s fascinating to hear them told through the collective distorted echo of the Three One G family. Featuring artwork by Mark McCoy.
Track list:
1. Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower – Pleasure Heads Must Burn
2. Das Oath – Friend Catcher
3. T Cells – Deep In The Woods
4. Cattle Decapitation – Sonny’s Burning
5. Year Future – Blundertown
6. SSion – Nick The Stripper
7. Ex Models – Mutiny In Heaven
8. Les Georges Leningrad – Riddle House
9. Rah Bras – Mr. Clarinet
10. Melt-Banana – Faint Heart
11. The Chinese Stars – The Plague
12. Celebration – King Ink
13. Kill Me Tomorrow – Junkyard
14. Get Hustle – A Dead Song
15. Numbers – Cry
16. Error – Wild World
17. Daughters – Marry Me (Lie Lie)
18. Some Girls – Release The Bats
