Saturday, July 4, 2009

HARRY PUSSY - “Girl with Frog” 7” EP




Esync – Miami (1993)

Adris Hoyos – drums, vocals
Bill Orcutt – guitar, vocals

(5 or 6 untitled songs)

Harry Pussy defined their sound on this, their second, record. The first single featured two slower, lumbering improvisational sounding compositions. This time around, there’s still some slower, introspective moments, but, in general, they pick up the pace and put together a style of music all their own. The excellent LP that followed this record would have more of a hardcore punk influence than this EP, but you can start to hear it here. Bill’s completely unique (I hadn’t heard anything like it before) guitar style, Adris’s flailing approach to drumming, their ability to make tuneless screetching sound like art, and a very dry sense of humor about the whole thing, put them miles in front of their noisy peers. I cannot image a worthwhile person passing this record up in a store. The cover alone makes it a mandatory purchase.

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