Released on gatefold sleeve 12” picture disc, the album showcases 5 tracks of abandoned sludge trudge. Showing typical restraint, the maker describes the record as “NON-LINEAR CUNTEDNESS”. While this is probably an overly harsh estimation of Draind Boner’s brutal mix of post punk style, No Wave and free proto-metal, the records truly a-tonal sonic attack will certainly cause some divided opinions among fans of the band. But if your idea of time well spent is listening to music which evokes the sound of overly-caffeined baby elephants slopping about in oily puddles, that have formed outside a former Soviet chemical factory, then this is the album for YOU.
Brain Donor was formed in July 1999 and played their first show at Londons Queen Elizabeth Hall in May 2000. Fronted by bass player/singer Julian Cope and guitarist Doggen, the most dramatic change in the sound comes, however, from new drummer Mr E, whose overtly confident and punctuating style of drumming echoes Sabbaths Bill Ward and Grand Funks Don Brewer. This has lent a far greater emphasis to the rhythm section, in places even adding elements of brutal stop/start skunk in the Jah Wobble period PILE tradition. Make no mistake, DRAIND BONER is not heavy metal, neither is it the fast unrestrained free garage rock weve come to expect from the band. Its new, its compelling and its the only current evidence that these morons still exist, since their previous album LOVE, PEACE & FUCK and the double LP TOO FREUD TO ROCKNROLL, TOO JUNG TO DIE are both long since deleted.
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