Negativland - Thigmotactic - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is Seeland's re-issue of Negativland's 1989 notorious ax-murder hoax project. In part one, Negativland exposes their own manipulation of the media when a startling prank of theirs swells to monstrous proportions, while part two has everything you once needed to know about radio's selling of the past in a future which hadn't happened yet, but is now old news. Album Tracks 1. Helter Stupid Prologue 2. Helter Stupid 3. Perfect Cut (Canned Music) 4. Perfect Body (Rooty Poops) 5. Perfect Cut (Good As Gold) 6. Perfect Cut (Piece of Meat) 7. Perfect Cut (White Rabbit and a Dog Named Gidget) 8. Perfect Cut (11 Minutes) 9. Perfect Cut (48 Hours)

Album Tracks 1. All I Do 2. Crestfallen 3. The Queen of Detroit 4. Beverley Road 5. Manifest Destiny (In General) 6. The Declaration of Independence 7. Setting Your Head on Fire 8. The Industrial Revolution 9. Yo Yo Yo (Please Don't Fall in Love) 10. I Sleep Forever 11. All I Have to Do Is Make You 12. Ill Advised 13. The Seperation of Church and State

Anthropocosmic Nest is the second full-length by Washington, D.C.'s THE MESSTHETICS, who are ANTHONY PIROG (LOW WAYS QUARTET), JOE LALLY (FUGAZI) and BRENDAN CANTY (FUGAZI, DEATHFIX). Recorded at the band's practice space throughout 2019, it's an album that more perfectly captures the trio's current live dynamic, complete with improvisational tangents, playful experimentation, and cathartic sprawl. When The Messthetics recorded their debut album in 2017, the trio had only done a handful of shows and had yet to fully find it's footing on stage. In a way, those compositions were a template for the band that Pirog, Lally, and Canty hoped would come into being through subsequent work on the road. Since then, The Messthetics have played upwards of 200 shows across the US, Europe and Asia. Their dialog as a performing unit has necessarily focused and intensified. As a result, Anthropocosmic Nest offers a more varied vision of the band. It's the loudest the trio has ever been and also the quietest. Album Tracks 1. Better Wings 2. Drop Foot 3. Section 9 4. Scrawler 5. The Assignment 6. Pay Dust 7. Pacifica 8. Because the Mountain Says So 9. Insect Conference 10. La Lontra 11. Touch Earth Touch Sky