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Eat Skull slips skullduggery into your skull

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | musiX, pdX | No Comments

One of the Portland bands I kept hearing about before I moved here was Eat Skull. Lo-fi trash rock with hooks? Count me in. The band just reported that they have finished their new record Wild and Inside, which will most likely find its way inside your skull this spring on Siltbreeze Records.

Eat Skull also posted a new song called “Stick to the Formula” on their MySpace, which, along with “Dawn In the Face,” will appear on Wild and Inside. Both songs continue in the tradition of so-lo-fi-it-hurts-so-good songs like “Waiting For the Hesitation” and “Shredders On Fry” off the band’s 2008 debut LP Sick To Death. The production itself might scare listeners off before they really get a feel for the music. If you’re patient and open-minded, however, you will be rewarded handsomely … not really sure what the reward is … maybe coolness? Then what do I get for that gaudy headline?

Eat Skull will test a few of the new ones out this Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Doug Fir with Quasi and The Golden Bears. It’ll be interesting to hear what the pristine acoustics of the Doug Fir do to Eat Skull’s ramshackle skuzz.

“Waiting For the Hesitation” - Eat Skull (Sick To Death)

Tags: Eat Skull, Quasi, Sick to Death, Siltbreeze Records, The Golden Bears, Wild on the Inside