EGG & CRISP

Cleverness Ferments Meat

(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00

Cleverness Ferments Meat “won’t revolt your housemates so much as the previous one,” promises Andrew Ciccone of Navel-Gazers. “If you’ve made it this far, you’re probably on the lookout for duck noises drenched in reverb — well, I can guarantee you’ll find that here. But there’s more. On ‘see you Friday’ I could swear I detect — get this — *over*dubbing. Either that or these clone-farmers have managed to herd a half dozen Eggs, a handful of Crisps and even an Ivor Kallin or two into a single room simultaneously, for some sort of a barbershop TwelveTet. By the end of the final track (titled, predictably enough, “puppet 7 eating up the crap peacefully’), with several wrongfully-detained harmonicas seeming to have been waterboarded most unceremoniously, I am ready to concede that I have no idea what’s going on.” Edition of 60