TO NIJE SALA/WHAT MAKES DONNA TWIRL?-A BITER KERMIT HAEVEN/SELF TITLED, SPLIT LP, 1989, USA

Following my barrage of Steaming Coils posts, here's a little known and critical piece of the Brad Laner puzzle (well, half of this anyway). To Nije Sala's side finds a post-Steaming Coils Laner paired up with Steve Stain and Lucija Kordic of What Makes Donna Twirl?, and it's a combination electrically charged with the sick synergy of flipped sensibilities colliding for the first time. With Stain's strained vox at the fore (his exhibitionistic approach standing in stark contrast to Chrisman's low key warble in Steaming Coils), The mixed company Laner's keeping here prompts him to re-approach the overt insanity of the first era of Steaming Coils and it's a gorgeously demented thing to behold. What Makes Donna Twirl?'s side is equally touched in the head sounding, if slightly less in-your-face with it's psychosis mongering. The vibe here is distinctly claustrophobic, percussively churning, grunting and howling in a personal hermetic abyss uniquely their own.

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