Description
40th year anniversary edition of this classic 1978 session!
This 4 song 12” ep captures The Child Molesters at their most vile and hideous. Ace and Duce/Negative Jazz have brought this back to life from the original reel. 500 pressed. Liner notes by “Tork Lugnutz”.
Our take: Four-song 12 of vintage recordings from these California KBD provocateurs. Unless Im mistaken, these tracks were first released in 1981 as a 12 called Wir Lieben Die Jugendlich Mdchen (with much cooler artwork IMHO), then as a double 7 on Sympathy for the Record Industry (with artwork far more tasteless than what you see here). If youve only heard the bands classic (Im the) Hillside Strangler, this is very much the same band like that track, these songs are mean, nasty, and provocative, essentially the late 70s equivalent of what an internet troll might do today. However, the recordings on these tracks give them a very different vibe. Whereas Hillside Strangler is super dense and fuzzy, these tracks have a clearer, more professional recording. While they probably sound better by most peoples definition, to me they dont have the same sonic impact as the single, though they do allow the bands personality to shine through much more clearly. Whether or not thats a good thing depends on your interest in the kind of provocation that the Child Molesters traded in theyre very much into playing the heel, and while its clear that they rankled some feathers in their day, some of the imagery that they were playing with has become downright taboo in the nearly 30 years since these songs were originally recorded. To me, this probably goes more in the historical curiosity category than the total rager category, but if youre into the deeper history of the KBD world this is certainly an interesting release.
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