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The Octagon

by The Trashies

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    "The Octagon is uncanny and cracked, scrappy and manic — the work of a band at wits’ end. It’s the 5th album by The Trashies, and a model for bucking late-career complacency: The Octagon sounds like nothing in the dada-bards of garbage rock’s madcap discography. The production skews homespun-to-crude; the songs, whether woozy or chittering, feel frenzied. Still, it’s occasionally gorgeous, and boasts flights of lyrical invention. Passages of illegible noise — probably power-tools, maybe a twisted tailpipe — cede to infernal couplets (“Heavy Door”) and sauntering prettiness (“Fresh Honey”). The Trashies, split between Oakland and Seattle, recorded The Octagon across a span of three years in various living-rooms and rehearsal dens throughout the Pacific Northwest. It’s co-released by Oakland’s Fine Concepts and the band’s own 24/7 Records, and features artwork by Max Nordile and Erin Allen, hand screened at Fine Concepts Laboratories."- Sam Lefebvre

    "The most important gunk-rock band to come out of the Northwest in our lifetime, the Trashies—Ron Wolfman (guitar/vocals), Jesse Cody (keyboards on trashcans/vocals), Ricky Ticky Tahvi Router Table (drums), Billy Goat Brown Note (bass)—have renewed their vows of idiocy for their fifth full-length album…

    Step into The Octagon.

    Exploring new art-gunk crevices, The Octagon stretches out classic Trashies sounds and concepts into cough-syrupy new shapes. Wandering further away from their 2004-era speedy satire punk with each release, the Trashies of The Octagon haven’t forgotten their roots as much as they’ve let them ferment into a mind-altering stew. The straightforward parody has warped into allusions of deeper freak-dom. Less Spits/Reatard, more Fall/Beefheart.

    The trash has aged into a fine compost.

    Recorded by resident producer Wolfman, The Octagon pushes the Trashies into more experimental zones—uncomplicated electronic drums, bizarre sound samples, and vertigo-inducing vocal layers are smeared over their more familiar spiraling bass, guitar, and keyboard riffs.

    Album opener “Dumb 2 B Smart” honors the Trashies tradition of rejecting all things intelligent; the music is being on DMT at Home Depot. A choir of gurgling mutants falsetto through “Fresh Honey”—an ode to outdoor toilets—backed by the most actually-very-beautiful music on the album (synth lines and guitar noodles as tranquil as the untouched blue liquid in a fresh Honey Bucket).

    The demented hootenanny that is “Shovel”—the ballad of a man with nothing but a shovel in a single-occupancy tool shed—reminds us that no Trashies album is complete without the fecund brain of Jesse Cody; a worm of many words, his savant monologues/ramblings/squealings are particularly genius on this album. “I received a shovel when I burst from the womb/Now I just have a shovel and an empty room.”

    Like a tropical fungus eating through a construction site, “Heavy Door” and “Rhinoline My Mind” both feature the combination of steel drums and power tools (someone had to do it). The album’s title/final track is a mutant ringmaster bleating word salad over a dilapidated carny groove. There are other songs, too, but you get the idea.

    This is music to lick toads to. Bless this mess."
    -Emily Nokes

    The Octagon is The Trashies 5th full length album.
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The Octagon 02:17
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Contact Low 02:16
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Roachryder 01:15
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Heavy Door 01:17
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Fresh Honey 02:06
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VENOM 01:59
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Shovel 02:37

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released October 13, 2017

Recorded by Eric Randall

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