I’m not sure many of us are ready for Jani/Jussi’s Pleasure Boy. This is the 1980s, early Xiu Xiu, labelmates German Army, Ariel Pink, and Atom & His Package (didn’t see THAT one comin’, did you?) thrown into a cage, given rations for one, and told to FIGHT TO THE DEATH, indie SCUM!!! It’s so raw you might want to bake the tape a little before you ingest it. Distorted, post-Disco Inferno vocals accompany tinker-toy arrangements on a trip to the edge of the world. Jani/Jussi soar when they need to, yet always remain grounded, tethered to their rhythms like magnetized wheels clinging to railroad tracks. That is, until they truck in a drone drift halfway through Side B. Short-story-long, you need to choose this adventure if it hasn’t already chosen you.
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