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In the industry, I am the only complete man… sang Country Teasers B.R. Wallers, quoting Naked Lunch, back in 1995. If modesty didnt forbid, he mightve been speaking of his own band. Is there another current group operating at such a high level musically or lyrically? Evolving out of a prolific home recording project in the late 80s influenced by The Cure and Butthole Surfers, The Teasers debuted as a beguiling mixture of deconstructed country and dissonant post-punk. Boycott the Studio was their manifesto: You will not find music where it is shown, only where it is hidden…
The Empire Strikes Back, the groups eighth full-length, was recorded in Oregon 90,000 kilometers from thebands homein London when In the Red made good on a promise to find the band a live-in studio with an amenable engineer (Rich Wells of Portlands Supreme Reality Studios). Far froma sanitized studio recording,the album isasdamagedand unpredictable as any Teasers album (only withbetter microphones). The bands humorremains asstrangely contradictoryas ever,with Wallersjuggling a cast of personaeas far-flung as P.G. Wodehouse, Ice Cube, Winston Churchill, and Bill Hicks.
Is The Empire Strikes Back a concept album about race, England, and Star Wars, or did the band just find something unwholesomely amusing about the juxtaposition of fascism and Industrial Light and Magic? Via fax, all five members answer Definitely.
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