Bin Juice is being released by The Lovely Eggs to celebrate the bands 20th Anniversary as a totally independent band and features outtakes and demos from the bands Eggsistentialism album along with some b-sides, making this into a very independent Eggsploitation album. The Lovely Eggs are Holly And David and this is the scraps from the bands bins.
The album bursts into life with Introducing Bullshit that has an insistent beat and dark angry guitars, nasty vocals howl at all the crap we are surrounded by, when this breaks down to the four to the floor dirty dance beat, they tell us that we should choose to be who you are, sound advice, before it flies off into the stratosphere of clattering madness.
Crab Shell is angsty clattering garage indie, for someone who has taken to hiding away in a Crab Shell, can they tease them back out into the world once more. Eat Me has a greasy as all hell guitar line that Holly wails over, before truly insane synth noises go off, like a party anthem on bad acid.
Empire Of Death is noise pop for echo chamber idiots trying to bring about an Empire Of Death, this is rather catchy despite all the musical madness going on around the central vocals. (You've Been A) Shit To Me take an 80's AOR sounding tune, stripped back vocals explain just how bad you really are to deal with. Somehow this is also the prettiest song on the album.
It Takes More Than Us makes the clear point that we need to stick together if we ever want to defeat the forces of corporate evil, dark techno beats, a robotic sound for walking in time to fight the evil puppet masters.
Creepin' is a very sparse almost Feist style stripped back folk song for Creepin' about avoiding the hanging tree, that builds to a louder indie part before the sweet vocals lead us out again.
Slug Graveyard is a sing along tale of death and the dread they feel for that Slug Graveyard, where things disappear permanently never to be seen again. In between the chorus there is some clattering hellscape guitars.
My Dad opens with a super dirty bassline for this dreamscape about being back at school and all the nasty things that happened when Holly's dad showed up at school, despite the fact her dad had died in the late 90's, this is quite unsettling, a traumatic ghost story. The Grind that we are all stuck with, trying to get through another day without going as insane as this tune does.
Friendship Is A Beautiful Thing almost sounds like The Vaselines, a spare acoustic song of the need we all have for good friendships. The Voyage is industrial sturm und drang electronic nastiness and treated vocals, this has loads of echo and reverb and a louche experimental feel.
Furnace Mountain is a quiet almost folk song with ambient street noise backing. On The Line takes call hold messages and adds the sort of angry drums and guitars that go with the frustration of waiting for a human to pick up the god damn phone. Complete with Chat GPT style nonsense answer from the machines.
The album closes with the raucous Melody For Meathead who needs to be battered round the head with this slice of noisy madness.
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