Do I really need to go into the story of the Residents
here? For your sake, I hope not. This is an extended cd reissue of the long
out-of-print “Title
in Limbo” album, a collaboration with like-minded British avant-garde
duo Renaldo and The Loaf. It comes from
those heady days of the early 80s when the band was still mostly anonymous,
still consisted of the original four members, still wore the giant eyeballs and
were still making (for them) fairly accessible music.
If the Brothers Grimm dropped lots of bad acid, got
hold of some cheap keyboards, guitars and drum machines and decided to write
nursery rhymes instead of fairy tales, this period of the Residents would be
the result. Creepy as fuck, but in a sing-songy
way. Picture a beautiful, sun-dappled
lake, a warm breeze, puffy white clouds…….. now picture the bottom of the lake, full of muck
and slime and the decomposing bodies of all your friends. Something pretty laid over top of something
visceral and deeply disturbing. The
Residents.
1978-83 were, for me, the key years for the
Residents. This was probably the last
release by them that I really liked (although, to be honest, I really haven’t listened to
anything since 2002’s “Demons Dance Alone” – they’ve overstayed their welcome by about 15 years). It’s nice to have it back, and with some bonus tracks to
boot.
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