Barkmarket - Gimmick

Year: 1993

Label: Warner Brothers

Ahhh...the days when the cries of "sellout" rang from every mountaintop, when merely purchasing an album on a major label could brand you a traitor. Good times those early 1990's were. Good times.

Barkmarket sold out. They went from underground noise rock merchants mining the black gold of hardcore, metal, and rock and polishing it with some of the most fucked up lyrics of the day, to underground noise rock merchants mining the black gold of hardcore, metal, and rock, and polishing it with some of the most fucked up lyrics of the day. Fags. They didn't even have the decency to quit their day jobs. Assholes.

Rick Rubin "executive produced" this effort, I mean, what the fuck, they're too good for Steve Albini? Dicks.

DL

Sicbay - Overreaction Time

Year: 2003

Label: Fifty Four Forty Or Fight

Sicbay features Nick Sake formerly of Dazzling Killmen and Colossamite, and you can hear those bands in the mix, but this new group lets the listener up for air more often. Certainly they can pound you into dust, but there are just as many delicate passages that heighten one's awareness of what's about to come. It sounds like a band raised on equal parts midwestern noise rock, and the math rock of Slint and Polvo. 

They released a second lp, and broke up in 2006. You can still find their releases on the Fifty Four Forty Or Fight website here.

DL