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The Athens Secret Admirer's "100 Word Album Review": Rat Babies
"Rat Babies is sludgy bayou animosity in the vein of Melvins with a Halloween Town, stumbling from the graveyard with an armload of shovels, feel. The rhythm is slow and the lyrics are dark and repetitive battles with depression and substance addiction-- driven home with a plodding and brutal momentum and a bass distorted to Jackson Pollock fog. Think of Atrayu pulling futilely at the reins of Artax as he sinks ever lower into a Swamp Of Sadness where lilly pads sprout hypodermic needles and the sun falls brown through soot stained clouds. A personal apocalypse with every track. Their EP release party it this Thursday evening at Flicker from 11 to midnight, and will be complimented by shreds of bassist and singer Mux's Carnivale Of Black Hearts and free pizza." |