Consumption, by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

Consumption

by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

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1.	Phthisis Overture 01:47	buy track
2.	Caresses Between Spirograph Worms 04:17	buy track
3.	Gandalf Is Weeping 06:30	buy track
4.	Tiny Bubbles Cannulated 03:49	buy track
5.	Tumbling Down An Embankment With A Stomach Full Of Bowling Pins 05:12	buy track
6.	Philosophy Of Waiting 09:14	buy track
7.	The Testes Of The Duke Were Perpendicular 05:05	buy track
8.	Sorrow In The Cubicle 06:05	buy track
9.	Pickup Lines 02:54	buy track
10.	Interpretation Of The Rut 01:46	buy track
11.	I Can Communicate With Bacteria 02:55	buy track

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Finding unorthodox anchors that strangle the fatuous out of abject grimness is a squid-free squid game Bren’t Lewiis mastered long ago, and Consumption certainly reaffirms that. The album’s fifty-minutes of quacking at the moon was inspired largely by mandatory wellness sequestering at a Walgreens post-inoculation, and the attendant anxiety that the pharmacist might be required to rush out of the bullet-proof cubicle because Gnarlos can’t handle the side effects of another microchip in the bicep. On any other day, a disoriented stumble up and down aisles stocked with gleaming fruits of capitalism, so desperately packaged with hot colors and zazzy lettering and borderline-lascivious hype, might earn a person a request to vacate ASAP from a polite rent-a-cop. When nano-bots in the bloodstream is part of the equation, forget it, back to the factory with you, we’re gonna have your head changed to something more aesthetic. Those surveillance cameras are not here to protect the mouthwash.

Anonymous chatter from field recordings is maddeningly constant, passages of repetitive electronic yoib hopscotch across cowering backdrops, there are more cut-ups and loops than a knife fight at a prison knitting circle, and the dynamics feel like flu symptoms. The first time The City Councilman heard the finished album, he said “I tried to listen while I was grant-writing and found it so intense that I could not do both things at the same time.” Among the album’s final straws are Lucian Tielens reading pick-up lines found in an abandoned notebook at the public library (a truncated early mix of which was included on Cough Park’s Bandcamp-only mix EZ Street Cheeze), and Steve Marquis’s psychedelic heart attack on “Tumbling Down An Embankment With A Stomach Full Of Bowling Pins.” Absent-minded mumbling, concerns about post-op complications, the appropriated voices of self-help mutants colliding in surreal patchworks of entendre all lead to the inevitable: that Hastings Of Malawi no longer have to reimagine I Think You Should Leave as an old time radio drama.

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released February 4, 2022

Participants: Fuzzy, Shalimar Fox, The Viper, Jon The Baptist, Mrs. Stanley J. Zappa, (Wife Of Stanley J. Zappa), Yvonne Lovejoy, Steve Marquis, The City Councilman, Lucian Tielens, Gnarlos, Lacie Pound, Tom Chimpson, Lala Lu

Recorded at Fluxus Enigma, Fair Oaks, and at Hazel’s ’Lectric Washhouse, Oakland. Mixed and edited at No Spray 205, San Francisco

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