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salami junior - deli days / sontava nights - feeding tube records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. The Bread of Man
2. Fat City
3. I Want to Drink Your Girlfriend's Blood
4. Resource Room
5. Piano Boy
6. Black Woman
7. I'm Bigger
8. We Don't Need Drum Fills
9. I Never Wanna Take Acid Again
10. The World Out There
11. Getcha Rocks Off
12. Deli Boys
13. I Am Beautiful
14. Baby Mayo
15. The Day They Cut Me Out
16. Poutin Skies
17. I Want World Peace
18. The Busting of My Chops
19. This World Is Shit
20. Teardrops from Me
21. Sunday Gravy
22. Kill Mother Nature
23. Sontava Girls

Joey Pizza Slice returns to vinyl with a new LP that reissues a pair of rare, recent cassettes.

The music is as daffily-crafted as always -- recorded and layered onto a portable cassette deck with the erase head disengaged -- this is DIY pop music of an extremely discordant nature. Some of Joey's musical moves seem to start from a place as relatively organized as work by people like Gary Wilson and Jad Fair, but he keeps feeding random actions into the mix, resulting in music full of uniquely bizarre twists. One gets the sense that Joey is deeply dedicated to the idea of creating pop music, but he has a very specific and eccentric way of producing it. As with his first LP, A Study in Eraser Headless Tape Recording, the performances here are scrambled, blasting off in a lot of directions at one time. You can start to think you're getting a handle on the proceedings, but it's an illusion. Mr. Slice's work on Sontava Nights is probably his most carefully programmed, which means it resembles Daniel Johnston's mid-period work in certain ways, at least as far as construction goes. But there is a North Woods Surrealist streak in his music that could never be produced on the arid plains of Texas. Truly a son of the long nights of cold winters, Salami Junior's skin bursts at the first touch of spring's warming rays of sunshine. And we are all the messier for it. Enjoy. Edition of 400 copies.