Morsel / Cigarhead - Morsel / Cigarhead split

 

Label: Simple Solutions

Year: 1995

Speaking of bands who put out records on Choke Inc., and start with the letter "M", let's listen to a little Morsel. The Ann Arbor, MI band certainly fit into the noisy cadre of the Choke Inc. roster, with their rumbling bass and punching riffs. They could have also fit in well on Reproductive Records alongside Spore, Milkmoney, and Slughog. You only get one song on this split, but it's a great one. You get a good sense of how big their dynamics aimed, and how they could take a melody and bury under six feet of dread. The singer also played flute, and would sing on stage into her flute blow hole, run through a Leslie cabinet to give the vocals a warped screech (not very screechy on this song though). 

On the flip side we visit with Cigarhead. I know far less about the band, and as far as I know they only released two split 7"s...so, not exactly prolific. They were from Dayton, OH, which I can only assume means they were buddies with Dirk from Doghouse (Stronghold represent!). The drummer would later play in Enon and Holy Fuck, and prior to Cigarhead the folks were in a band called Sunken Giraffe, which also spawned Brainiac. You can hear a bit of that Brainiac mania in Cigarhead, but they play it more straight. Relatively so anyway. It's still more abrasive than is typically appreciated in mixed company. Not to cast aspersions on how hard you party or whatever, but...you know.

DL