Psychic.... Powerless.... Another Man's Sac (Reissue) (Vinyl LP)

Vinyl LP
Often considered the weird uncle of an early 80s scene that included their peers The Birthday Party, Sonic Youth, and Big Black, Butthole Surfers were a properly insane and undeniably incredible band. Formed in Texas by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary, with drummer King Coffey joining a couple of years later, Butthole Surfers burst onto the scene in 1981 like a ruptured boil, spilling their unique brand of bizarro alternative rock into the ears of an unsuspecting public. Now, four decades since the band’s first real release, Matador have announced the first three titles from the band’s catalogue for reissue. It’s time to get weird… again! - Flying Out

The early-mid ‘80s had their share of insane combos -- The Birthday Party, Black Flag and Minor Threat had the raw power to melt your mind in seconds. SWANS, Einsturzende Neubauten and Big Black created enough overwhelming sonic pressure their sounds might actually flatten you. And Sonic Youth displayed such a dizzyingly unpredictable mix of art, pop culture and violence you’d sometimes leave their shows drooling. The Buttholes shared elements with all of these groups, but added an insane psychedelic edge and a propensity for bizarre spectacle. 

40 years later, The Butthole Surfers have announced their first batch of reissues in collaboration with Matador Records certain to raise the roof for a lot of people who thought they had a pretty good handle on the outer realms of the ‘80s indie-rock scene. And while the recordings are not the fully immersive experience of the Buttholes in concert, you may still feel as though you’ve fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas itself. 

Tracklist

  1. Concubine
  2. Eye of the Chicken
  3. Dum Dum
  4. Woly Boly
  5. Butthole Surfer
  6. Lady Sniff
  7. Cherub
  8. Mexican Caravan 
  9. Cowboy Bob
  10. Gary Floyd