Sunset Blvd Vinilo y CD

Review: Kurt Cobain favourites and Texan punk outliers Butthole Surfers don't know when or where exactly this live recording was made. But who cares!? The most important thing to know is the recording is gnarly and the band sound out of this world with their blend of noise, punk and psychedelic rock a truly idiosyncratic affair. Highlights on here include 'The Annoying Song' with singer Gibby Haynes' belligerent use of a toy megaphone. The guitar solos are top notch here, too. While 'Human Cannonball' is a thrilling number that you imagine created raucous circle pits at the actual show. It's great to see technology put to good use and cleaning up old live punk shows and getting them sounding this powerful.

Review: Butthole Surfers’ live shows are a wild, chaotic storm, equal parts psycho-sludge and punk mayhem. Jeff Pinkus’ relentless bass and King Coffey’s pounding drums lock in tight with Paul Leary’s guitar, while Gibby Haynes snarls and yelps through demoniac vocal assaults. Hallucino-noise sparks up against unexpected melody momenta, and this would prove a weighty enough hammer to push them well down the popular pipe, far beyond underground cult status. Their live appearance at Feather Fly was best described as a firestorm of nudity and nightmare visuals, and this full-length recapturing reinscribes that raw energy across 21 tracks, from the eerie realtime sludge of ‘Graveyard’ to the Texas punk anthem ‘Gary Floyd’ to the gadding high of ‘Bong Song’ and crowd favourite ‘P.S.Y.