Sunday, July 22, 2007

GOTHIC HUT-SHOW ME YER BELLY, LP, 1988, USA




Following my post of this L.A. Free Music Society-related art pop band's third album "Big Holes!" a little while back, here's their second missive from a year earlier. I'd previously bemoaned the fact that, unlike some of the other L.A.F.M.S. related bands of a rock disposition (Human Hands and Bpeople to name a couple), Gothic Hut have never really gotten their due. That this particular album featured a title more apropos for a group like Nashville Pussy might have had a bit to do with that, which is a pity, as this is another gem of subtly skewed low key pop smarts of a strangely narcotized demeanor, with Rick Potts' (Human Hands, Steaming Coils, Le Forte Four, Solid Eye etc.) impish sensibility lending the proceedings a subtly cockeyed air that'd be easy to overlook if you weren't paying close attention, their unprepossesing demeanor managing to creatively couch idiosyncracy inside that which superficially seems straightforward.

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4 comments:

ellanios said...

Bravo Muta Pou tous Thumithikes?An Thymamai kala prepei na eixan vgalei kai kati pio endexno prin apo afto.isos itan single i Ep.

fuzztunnel said...

Thanks for this...

"Big Holes" I think is the stronger album ("Seafoam Green" gives that one a rating of 314 out of 10) but this album is no slouch, either.

But dig that album art!

Gustavo said...

Thanks for posting this! I only ever found Big Holes! so its great to have another album from them. I submitted them to discogs - it would be really cool if you could submit this album too, and vote on my submissions (no one else knows this great band, so its been sitting there for almost a year!).

http://www.discogs.com/Gothic-Hut-Big-Holes/release/1318733

Ben Burger said...

Can you repost this? Since I heard the song "RIO" I have been suffering from nothearingtherestofthealbum-itis.

Thank you!