MELT BANANA Scratch Or Stitch

Description

New edition in Digipack - 2022

Remember that ashes always seem to find a place and settle. Out of the ashes of old, Melt-Banana sizzle and scream, slide and skitter, scratch and stitch, heralding a new wave. Melt-Banana are real. They walk on water and effortlessly juggle all of those sharks nipping at their heels, the ones that think they're swimming in new, unexplored territories. Here are the imported children of no waves gone by, a hardcore-informed maelstrom of experimental heart surgery - straight from the heart of Tokyo's ferocious underground. In short? Take all of the scrabbling atonal dissonance of no wave, bathe it in the hysteria of hardcore, then rinse with the acceleration of speed metal. Repeat. Melt-Banana will be touring the United States in the Fall of 2022 in conjunction with this release. Support will be provided by the likes of Psychic Graveyard, Deaf Club and No Age. This new glass-mastered compact disc edition of 'Scratch or Stitch' comes packaged in a deluxe hi-gloss digipak with a full color, 12-panel fold-out poster-booklet containing lyrics and artwork. Musical guests include K.K. Null of Zeni Geva and Jim O'Rourke of Brise-Glace. Recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini. Mixed by Jim O'Rourke.

Production: Recorded by Steve Albini / Engineered by Jim O'Rourke Cover art by Mark Fischer

Recorded by Steve Albini / Engineered by Jim O'Rourke
Cover art by Mark Fischer

Titles

1.Plot In A Pot
2.Scratch Or Stitch!
3.Sick Zip Everywhere
4.Disposable Weathercock
5.Ten Dollars A Pile
6.Ketchup Mess
7.Buzzer #P
8.Rough Dogs Have Bumps
9.Iquana In Trouble
10.It's In The Pillcase
11.Test: Ground 1
12.Zoo, No Vacancy
13.A Finger To Hackle
14.Type B For Me
15.His Name Is Mickey (At Last She Got Him...)
16.Back To The Womb
17.I Hate It!
18.What Do You Slaughter Next?
19.Eye-Q Trader
20.Dig Out!
21.Contortion Out Of Confusion
22.Pigeons On My Eyes (Go To Bed!)