THE BLOOD BROTHERS ‘BURN, PIANO ISLAND, BURN’ LP + 7" (20th Anniversary Edition, Yellow w/Pink & Black Splatter Vinyl)

LABEL: Epitaph
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 10/06/2023
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2003
VARIANT: 20th Anniversary Edition, Yellow w/Pink & Black Splatter Vinyl + 7"

The Blood Brothers’ major label debut paired the Seattle experimentalists with nu-guru Ross Robinson, who helped push the band towards an even more exaggerated and extreme form of art-damaged hardcore. The two-screamer approach camped it up with sassy, surrealist wordplay on bulimic rainbows and sexline perverts; the songs manically contorted themselves through elements of gothic horror, free jazz, ‘70s glam, and Gravity Records-influenced punk.

Ablaze in feverish ambition, it’s a memorably weird trip around the Island.