Category:
Rock

Try if you like:
Art Bears, Butthole Surfers, Nurse With Wound

Nurse With Wound collaborator Peat Bog performed all the instruments on the epic release Be That Charge, a two CD set (a third CD is included in the first 300 copies of the release) of invention, humor, daring and horror that one could start arguments with by suggesting is more visionary than NWW. There is dream, noise, silence and poetry here, all over the twenty tracks here.

 

On the noisy end there is the title track plus “Funhouse,” which get their fuzzy guitars deep under your skin. “When She Watches Television” and “E-Freeme Buzzbomb” are epic and creepy in the way of the best art: like the rest of this set, they challenge the assumptions of your worldview while daring to explore their own. This is intimate and distant, with seemingly no good idea gone unexplored. The bonus CD is a little more straight-ahead, but, given the source, that still means you need to brace yourself and open your mind. I don’t want to say this is a classic, because that has no real meaning. But it would fit my humble definition of one. This is Bog’s third release as Earthmonkey, and it is by far the most visionary…and rocking.