Two For Flinching : mr. Gnome and Free Kitten

Welcome back, kiddies. Hold tight because, today, Two For Flinching is going to get a little noisy.

mr. Gnome - Deliver This Creature



Deliver This Creature (available from el marko records) is the latest magnificently twisted musical fruit sprung from the loins of Cleveland-based clamorbrats, mr. Gnome. Coming from the city that has nurtured such notables as Alan Freed, Chrissie Hynde, the burning Cuyahoga River and most importantly, Pere Ubu, it's only natural that Nicole Barille and Sam Meister have adopted a more is messier approach to making music. Amid the cacophony, one is liable to hear artifacts of PJ Harvey, Bjork, Blonde Redhead and gloriously misspent youth. Deliver This Creature sounds like mischievous elves on a Pixie Stix and Wild Irish Rose bender in Tool's practice space. Give them extra points for mixing the record at Madison's Smart Studios, a building that has churned out more than its fair share of beautiful noise. A perfunctory glance at the cover art of Deliver This Creature was enough to send one of my more delicate co-workers into an anxiety-spiral. If life was fair (yeah, Dad, I know it isn't) mr. Gnome would be scoring S. Darko.

Free Kitten - Inherit

I'm a little worried about Thurston Moore. All of a sudden, this guy is releasing music at a frightening clip. It's gotten so out-of-hand that he's even selling records alongside five buck coffees and Putumayo releases that my mother assures me are "wonderful." Anyway, with hubby gettin' paid, Kim Gordon has decided that it's high time for her, Yoshimi of The Boredoms and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz to get the band back together and record that followup to 1997's Sentimental Education. Inherit (available from Ecstatic Peace!, natrually) is just about what you'd expect from a Free Kitten record: serrated guitar lines, druggy come ons and a healthy dose of din. Even the legendary J Mascis drops in to contribute some of his trademark fretwork and drumming. An earsplitting time for the entire inbred family.

And as usual, I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm just sayin'.

mr. Gnome - Deliver This Creature
Free Kitten - The Poet

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