Tera Melos - “Patagonian Rats”

My friend Derek Blackstone put it best when he said something to the effect of:

“there is a good chance that i have only ever been less excited for other albums to be released than i am for patagonian rats. woah.”

I think I agree.

I have listened to the album a bit since I wrote the last sentence, and I can safely say it’s the best they’ve written so far.  And probably on my top 10 for this year so far.  It could be their band’s crab t-shirt that I bought freshman year hypnotizing me, but their ascent from absolutely insane three-minute-long guitar hooks into more traditional but still-abstract song structures has them in territory with the greats.  The parts of me that love Hella, cited influence The Pixies, and grindcore-style noise jams are high-fiving right now.  (I may try to stay away from bunch-o-hyphens reviews from now on, but it hurts oh-so-good right now.)

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 Just because y’all might not want to listen from start to end, highlight tracks for me include headslammer “The Skin Surf,” 9-minute-riffer “Party With Gina” which is presumably a followup to their previous 5+ minute (correction, 2-and-a-half-minute-but-still-)epic “Party with Tina,” and (comparatively) darker, creepier track “Westham United.”
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It was hard to pick these.)

They have the good hearts to release it on their bandcamp, since we dirty thieves have evidently broken the last barriers of their moneymaking spirit.  Stream it here!

You can also buy the pre-order packages on their website featuring either just the album, or a bunch of merch to go with it.  Their t-shirts are pretty sweet.

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