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The
Electric Eels
The
Eyeball Of Hell
SCAT
Career
spanning retrospective for Cleveland über-punks.
The Electric
Eels come out of the same blasted milieu that spawned Rocket
From The Tombs, The Styrenes and eventually Pere Ubu, and
were the most primitive of the lot, playing a sociopathic
garage-punk mutant that married two-chord frat stomping and
atonal free jazz with a real 'fuck you' attitude. The Eyeball
Of Hell provides a gloriously lo-fi overview of their fraught
career, taking in singles, studio recordings and unreleased
loft rehearsals from 1975. The Eels' group dynamic was primarily
fuelled by inter-band aggression and the music reflects the
players' fractured relationship as it teeters on the edge
of falling apart. Vocalist Dave E's lyrics are all teenage
taunts and neurosis as he sneers his way through high energy
takes on early classics like Cyclotron and Agitated. Pale
pubescence's poetry was never so beautifully rendered.
INFO:
www.electricfuckingeels.com
ALSO: Those Were Different Times SCAT
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