Ear Bitten (Vinyl 2LP)

First album collection from Aussie industrial-experimental originators - Severed Heads. Recently reissued on Dark Entries with added long lost tracks it is mad avant-industrial oddity - Matthew


Dark Entries are back with another formidable collection from Aussie industrial-experimental originators and glorious weirdos Severed Heads! Ear Bitten is a double disc reissue and rediscovery of the band's earliest works, including the original Ear Bitten album from 1980, and its follow up Side 2. Featuring photos, liner notes, and reproductions of the original Xerox inserts, this long lost and mad mystical magic will be well worth your hard earned moneys. - Flying Out

Dark Entries picks up Severed Heads yet again for Ear Bitten, a double LP reissue of some of the band’s earliest material. As originary Aussie industrial legends - although founder Tom Ellard would balk at being branded as such - Severed Heads shaped the continental subcultural sound with their kitchen electronics, chaotic tape loops, and quietly infectious nursery-rhyme-esque melodies. In 1979 Ellard, Richard Fielding, and Andrew Wright abandoned the moniker Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign and adopted the edgier name Severed Heads “to pretend to be an industrial band such as Surgical Penis Klinik & Throbbing Gristle.” Noise-rockers Rhythmx Chymx had placed an advertisement in a local shop looking for a band to share the costs of pressing an LP. The Heads set about recording a Dadaist racket on a pair of open reel dictaphones and a cassette deck using a TRS-80 computer, Kawai Synthesizer 100F and Korg Mini Pops drum machine. Ear Bitten was released in 1980; original copies now fetch obscene sums, in part due to most of Severed Heads’ copies perishing in a fire at Richard’s home. The band’s next endeavor was a cassette titled Side 2, a collection of free-form experiments fashioned as Ear Bitten’s second side. For this reissue, Dark Entries has collected both Ear Bitten and Side 2 on the first disc, presenting the album in its full form. Disc two includes the original first version of Ear Bitten, which was only unreleased because it was recorded in a format not suitable for pressing. The album comes in a gatefold sleeve designed by Eloise Leigh and includes photos, liner notes, and reproductions of the original Xerox inserts from the 1980 issue. Ear Bitten delivers 22 tracks of pain you can dance to!

Tracklist

All Rights Resevered
God Factory
Hawaii / Torso / 97 Cigarettes
Acid Fur
Dance
New York Is a Lonely Town
(This Track Doesn’t Exist)
Much About Bones
Scat
Pander to the Natives
For Garry 5
The Monkey Is Safe
1-2-3 a Baby Buggy
Walking Best Friend
Untitled 1
Untitled 2 
Now This Is God’s Son 1
Acid Fur (Demo)
Now This Is God’s Son 2
Hello Donald, Merry Christmas
Pinstripe Bus 
The Man of My Dreams