The Trashies: The Octagon 12″

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“The Octagon is uncanny and cracked, scrappy and manic the work of a band at wits end. Its the 5th album by The Trashies, and a model for bucking late-career complacency: The Octagon sounds like nothing in the dada-bards of garbage rocks madcap discography. The production skews homespun-to-crude; the songs, whether woozy or chittering, feel frenzied. Still, its occasionally gorgeous, and boasts flights of lyrical invention. Passages of illegible noise probably power-tools, maybe a twisted tailpipe cede to infernal couplets (Heavy Door) and sauntering prettiness (Fresh Honey). The Trashies, split between Oakland and Seattle, recorded The Octagon across a span of three years in various living-rooms and rehearsal dens throughout the Pacific Northwest. Its co-released by Oaklands Fine Concepts and the bands own 24/7 Records, and features artwork by Max Nordile and Erin Allen, hand screened at Fine Concepts Laboratories.”- Sam Lefebvre