***The rich tradition of delta blues meets modern oral surgical techniques in Hepa.Titus' most recent full-lenth release, the bewitching, beguiling unEat. Slithering bass lines envelop and enfold like beffy anacondas; glasy shards of guitar variously claw against the surface, or drill to the center of tender nerves; all to a thudding rhythm, variously jagged, halting and propulsive. And the singers rant about something, sounding for all the world like street corner schizophrenics declaiming and howling end-times prophecies through a haze of Night Train and methadone. Even a cursory listen to the album's lauded video tunes, "El Ray Vis" and "Doe Deer," is a first-order face-pounding that would induce screaming amidst the meek and tasteless. This, dear friends is state-of-the-art rocknroll for the year 2023. Blunt, irritable, opposing. Hepa.Titus is Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Melvins, Tomahawk, et al) Sterling Riley (Orphan Goggles, Cunts) and Paul Christensen (Qui). Pressed on clear / black mixed vinyl and limited to 310 copies.
LP $22.00
12/15/2023