“Dump Run“
“Dump Run” is posted as one long track but is actually made up of a lot of shorter pieces. The first song that kicks off the festivities is the title track and it gears up with a wall of distorted guitar noise and wild drumming. This led me to think the next 27 minutes were going to offer something like Hüsker Dü’s “Land Speed Record” with its nonstop onslaught of punk energy.
But less than two minutes in there’s a sudden stop, and second song “Reverent Disassembly” offers some slight washes of noise and a light touch on the guitar and drums. And from there, over the next dozen-plus songs strung together, SCRPYRD offers us what I will lovingly call a trash symphony. Just when you think you know where it’s going it changes up. It moves through moments of hardcore punk, noise, free jazz, space rock, industrial drone, experimental rock, and what may be voices calling up from under a pile of garbage; it is terrific
The release page says “No saxophones were harmed in the creation of this product.” That may be true, but I’m not sure about the guitars and drums. Take a run to this dump; it’s worth it.