the untold fables - to be your man

Madooooooo what a punch garage-punk-r&b... Stuff that didn't even come out —-

Robert Butler's transition to the Miracle Workers places Untold Fables in history without erasing its memory. After all, how could it, following a stunning debut like Every Mother’s Nightmare and the two singles released just as Butler joins forces with Mohr, Rogers, and Trautman? It’s precisely the content of those singles, almost in its entirety, that serves as the skeleton around which Dionysus assembles the band’s "second" album, having not received what were supposed to be the demos of I Love Lee. The result, somewhat rough around the edges (some titles are inexplicably truncated or distorted on the cover), only fuels the bitterness over the loss of one of the best California garage bands, capable of matching the devastating power of the Morlocks, in whose territories their Spit the Winkle and the cover of By My Side seem eager to venture.

But the love for sixties-punk remains unscathed.

Simply put, bitten with an even more animalistic voracity.

Tracks like I Think, To Be Your Man, Wendylyn, or Watch Your Step Woman detach from the ceiling of the Crawdaddy, Pandora’s Box, or Haunted House to crush us like cockroaches, narrating the last tales and nightmares of one of the most incredible, animalistic, brutal garage bands of the eighties.