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THE REVIEW

Let's say one thing right away: finding this album on a music store shelf is quite a challenging task. For anyone interested, it can be purchased on international websites (like play.com).
It is a spectacular album: 15 tracks that gather the craziest, yet possibly the most beautiful (certainly the rarest) songs of the band from Modesto.

From track 1 to 9, the pieces are dated 1999, while from track 10 onwards, they date back to 1995. It's a mix between the electronics of Sophtware Slump, acoustic guitars, various incomprehensible noises, echoes, keyboards that perhaps belong more to Under the Western Freeway.
In some tracks, Lytle's voice even seems to go off-key at times, but everything falls into place (it is, after all, a super lo-fi collection, damn!).

The tracks are mostly calm as usual, yet all different from each other: there are gems that make this album a must for fans of the band (like "Levitz" or the angry "Kim You Bore Me To Death").
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about the album is track no. 4 ("Wretched Songs"), where an angry electric guitar riff gives way to a piano-voice-acoustic guitar melody that changes rhythm, slowing it down, and the whole framework of the song takes us to another planet in our minds until the angry guitar riff reappears.
Opening the album are 3 semi-acoustic (thus not just electronic) piano-guitar ballads that reflect the sounds of "Jed the Humanoid".

If Sumday left you a bit cold or if you were expecting a step forward from "The Sophtware Slump", now is the perfect time to start discovering the past of this band through this work!