I think this is the Leather Nightmare
we were supposed to be hearing all along, and really the
distinguishing features are mostly in the (impeccable) visual design,
(matte black generic sleeve with printed stickers, black inner
sleeve,) but judging also by frothy jokiness and
real-life applicability, than this is the one you want too man.
I still like to assume LN are a cruel
joke, the laughing, gaping asshole of Nashville's Genre-Rock scene
du jour, delivered with a
stoney-faced irony so impenetrable it might be real, maybe, the
cutting and sardonic other
genre... Better Bauhaus than Black Flag, tbh. Better Swans
than sycophantic JTB-sympatico swill.
The
riffs--and this is riff rock
at its purest--are usually pretty good, memorable even. The lyrics
are "relatable" too: “I gotta fuckin' cum,” like, I can relate to that,
ya know. Elsewhere lead singer, Reid Barger sings about trying to get
high w/o any weed, like when you scrape out all the resin from your
bowl. These are real issues one wishes more artists would tackle.
Yeah
man, Leather Nightmare were good. Supposedly they hit a self-imposed
high water mark and
called it quits before they could ever produce a real, all the way
there LP. Maybe it's
for the best. Maybe not? Still, I wouldn't want to get caught in The Rapture w/o owning this here 12” EP.
Black
Jacket, Black Sleeve, Def. Recommended!
