Oh, Wait, Now I Get It

I got a stack of records from Easter Bilby the other week, which I was going to sit on for a while and maybe review in the zine or something (you know, the thing that I spend two months putting together so that nobody reads it), but right away this Per Purpose 7" started wrecking my ears so I figured I'd mention it. There's something about dropping a 7" onto a turntable that makes the songs yours, rather than when you're just clicking through Bandcamp or whatever, and so when I first played this thing it blasted out at me much in the same way that the Kitchen's Floor LP did last year: all of a sudden, a band that had been sort of shambling and rickety up til now had suddenly morphed into a full-blown rock outfit, with hooks to match. There's a great, uncaring blast of feedback which starts off "Warburton", and then some weird kind of strings that stay in the background along the way, so this sounds as much like something you would've heard coming out of Ohio in the mid-70's (once things really started getting fucked-up and weird) as much as a 7" that some Aussie band just put out a month ago. I've seen some pretty hilarious descriptions regarding this -- references to Jawbreaker and Quarterstick bands and the like -- but really, it shouldn't be that hard to figure out, even if I'll still manage to mess it up (and, for the record, the b-side is just as swank as the other side).




Per Purpose, "Warburton"