MICHIGAN RECORD A DAY : The Family Altar Of The Air "Suppertime" No label 19???
Feb 10, 2020
"Come home, Come home,
its Suppertime." Tapes of birds in the grotesque un-harmonious
background. So is the backdrop to this eerie "Mom & Pop" Price aka
Family Altar of Air monster Battle Creek Lurker from
gods-knows-when. Traditional in it's fam focused format but unique
with its spoken word parts and super-long all over the map
"buffett" of chimes, that f'in talking organ thing, disgusted four
part harmonies, handsaw: the works. So grim and filled with dark
grey joy, this Family stands above the Michigan Xian herd with
even-cruder angles of mutant musical attempts. Has a band photo in
the lower corner that looks like the photographer was pointing six
nuclear weapons at their faces. Can't get enough of this stuff. Has
"Rock of Ages" but Rock has sprinted from this crude monstrosity
four hundred years ago. Trust me, no one is looking for this Lp. Is
a Queen City press but no label or year to be found. On a strong
hit of clean LSD at 10:45pm on a Tuesday night dead of winter, this
album makes you feel like your soul has been rung through a rusty
laundromat that operates on the bones of forgotten drifters.
Genius, but not rolling up to this squad when the dinner triangle
of rotten magic rings through the empty Battle Creek fields. No
sir. Hearing 11 year old Donnie sing "Nobody, nobody, nobody cared"
leading into a 30 second hand saw solo can be a "moving experience"
to the loner hand puppet set. Music for the unglueing seams of the
shadow civilizations silently amongst us.