Another album that I purchased in high school that has various associated memories to it, mainly reading an XBXRX interview in Skratch magazine (when it was an actual magazine!) where they (I guess as the collective of whoever happened to be in the band that the time) explained the concept of the album, the album name and why there are short little snippets in between a few of the songs. I really don't remember much of what they said, but they hinted that pieces such as Paradosis were created mainly to get a reaction out of the listener and whatever reaction they created was the appropriate reaction to listening to the song. Also that the Sixth In Sixes is titled after the theory of the sixth extinction or ice age, that is to come, and so all the songs seem to be apocalyptic and telling of present times. Anyways, this album ruled pretty hard when I was 15/16; that day my Dad bought me this and The Blood Brothers' This Adultery Is Ripe album (later he said that The Blood Brothers album was too loud so I think he secretly threw it away, because it vanished one day... sneaky, sneaky). Oh yes, if you've never heard XBXRX then just imagine a less screechy sounding Arab On Radar (I'm not talking about the vocals either), perhaps a very focused and chunky, loose hanging, sideways, upside down punk album with No-Wave inspired progressions..., and stuff.
XBXRX - Sixth In Sixes
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