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  Suicide Pact/Summer Bummer by The Band in Heaven


Suicide Pact/Summer Bummer cover art

Artist: The Band in Heaven
Title: Suicide Pact/Summer Bummer
Catalogue Number: Workerbee Records
Review Format: EP
Release Year: 2010



The Band in Heaven are from Florida and I reckon that they value their obscurity for they certainly aren’t pursuing fame with these lo-fi grenades. Pull the pin out of “Suicide Pact” is like opening up a can of soup made up of Velvet Underground stock and mind expanding drugs.  Curiously indecipherable with a near insolent female voice occasionally popping out to further confuse you, your mind might explode trying to make sense of this remote controlled garage rock.

“Summer Bummer”, on the other hand, is powered by hard core robotic rhythms like some long lost Happy Mondays demo overdubbed and remixed by a European eighties keyboard maestro and is so beserkly good it could be analogue. A voice from the shadows cries out. What he says, nobody knows and they had the cheek to attempt a harmony while a guitar not so gently weeps over it all.

There is a saying – if you are going to fail, fail big time only The Band in Heaven haven’t failed here.

Available as part of a split tape (yes, tape!)with the Weird Wives and as a download from Bandcamp.


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Review Date: September 5 2010