A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die
(Ruby) Used LP $75.00
Two members of X and three members of the Blasters stand up to the raw beat-influenced visions of Chris Desjardins’s lyrics on the second Flesh Eaters album. Everything is executed with strength and ferocity, especially “Satan’s Stomp,” a long, feral groove cut live to two-track with no edits or overdubs. Rugged and artful at the same time, and Desjardins never had a better or more sympathetic set of collaborators than this. 1981 pressing.
Forever Came Today
(Ruby) Used LP $20.00
“Masterfully wrought punk tunes, reverberating with heart-wrenching vocals that turn on a dime from desperate whispers to blood-curdling screams. ‘Drag My Name In Mud’ is especially noteworthy as a deep dive into full-throttle rock demonology, bluesy primeval swagger and obsessive imagery, inspired in equal parts by William S. Burroughs and Edgar Allan Poe.” Original 1982 pressing
No Questions Asked
(Upsetter) Used LP $45.00
“Chris Desjardins’s lyrics are bleeding collages of B-movie dementia, Mexican Catholicism and Dionysian punk-spurt poetics. The vocals are powerful cat-scratched patterns of night-ripping fear, huge bursts of raunch-vomit, and cascades of pure and toxic love. Just as The Birthday Party took basic punk dynamics into new corridors of rhythmic / dynamic gloom, so do the Flesh Eaters. This is the meat that lies at the beginning of the Flesh Eaters’ trail.” Original 1980 pressing