The Ex ~ Catch My Shoe A-Library CD {Ex Records}

So the Ex???s original lead singer G. W. Sok has stepped down and we now find Arnold de Boer stepping up on this awesome album recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini and produced by Bob Weston (Big Black & Shellac).?? Arnold???s not so much filling shoes as he is strutting some fresh new kicks with the remaining classic members in this ongoing & ever-evolving Dutch anarcho-art punk collective.?? This album came straight to KFJC from Arnold???s hands following their jaw-dropping St. Patricks Day 2011 show at Bottom of the Hill (S.F.)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? (continued on back???)
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You???ll briefly catch Roy Paci???s blazing trumpet blasts (1 & 3). Arnold???s spastic pseudo 8-bit sounding erratic lead guitar, horn beep sampling and sing & talk delivery get a super-sonic tonal conversation going with Katherina Bornefeld who rocks stunning simmer & boil over avant-tribal percussive power rhythms on drums.?? Andy Moor & Terrie Hessels creatively communicate back & forth alternating elastic explosions, harmonics & feedback, mildly distorted melodies, oddly stressed notes, muted erratic string rubbing and abrasive riffs on baritone guitars.?? Their instruments keep operating on multiple time signatures all working at once on these almost improvised blistering & shifting avant experimental art punk freak-outs.?? It is super upbeat, it throbs, and it keeps you guessing on those edgy unpredictable changes.?? The other shoe has dropped on this fantastic exploration outside punks strict sounding confines.?? Catch My Shoe??? perhaps a euphemism for a shoe-throwing protest against injustice explored here in fine foot wearing fashion.?? ??????????????ALL SONGS CLEAN!?????? ??~Curtis Kimby