Broods
(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $9.00
“Wonderfully awful” is how one Sputnik Music writer who nearly destroyed summarizes what’s happening on this 2010 skull-crushing platter by Bhob Rainey, Victor Signore, Jeremy Phloyd Starpoli, and Peter Bonos. “The payoff is that some parts are so bad that it makes you laugh. This is an album meant to make you laugh, it is a completely new take on music; sounds so bad that they are hilarious. But it’s painful sound; they have covered the entire spectrum of hurtful sounds with this album. You can feel the flimsy aluminum lid from a can of Campbell’s tomato soup slicing your thumb open. That stupid pain when a tiny cut could be annoyingly painful. During the explosive tantrums of hurt they’ll precisely pluck the *** of a guitar string while tightening or loosening the tuning peg. They simulate the sound of the creak of a floor board in a dilapidated vacant house. The rhythm section is done perfectly using what sounds like objects they found lying around in a hoarder’s attic. Most songs sound like a kid shouting as he runs around a house destroying anything he can get his hands on while his parents are at the store. It’s hard to create something beautiful; Fat Worms of Error do the exact opposite. They create the most awful and disgruntled sound you’ve ever heard. They seem to have put a lot of effort into creating such a filthy, painful, mess of an album.” Mark Breyer cover art.