- Label: 'Property Of The Lost Records'
- Genre: 'Punk/New Wave'
- Release Date: '13.5.26.'- Catalogue No: 'LOST074'
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This dual album came together after both bands shared a bill at the Jenny Lind in Hastings getting along so well that Property of The Lost Records insisted they record an album together if it was the last thing they do. Moron Butler are from Kent and Vipertime are from Yorkshire where most of the album was recorded at Eiger Studios In Leeds in a 48-hour frenzy. Then they recorded the final two tracks deep in the Kentish countryside, where they also mixed the album. Moron Butler are Simon Osmond, Darren Tracey, Liam Renihan and Troy Osmond. Vipertime are Ben Powling, Matias Reed, Luke-Reddin Williams and George Hall.
The album opens with the loose Wire like vibes of Hand Carved Coffins that has Contortion like sax stabs and droll Truman Capotesque vocals for everything that happened in the Mekong delta, how discipline went out the window, along with all your disciples, this has a fraught No Wave poetry slam feel.
Waugh And Peace has a hardcore jazz punk feel, full on brass runs and staccato guitars with the urgent gruffly yelped vocals. A Month In The Country takes Turgenev's basic premise and takes us on a journey into post war despair, the charnel houses and the mistake of Gallipoli, the death and wounded are described over a taut bassline, howling screaming saxes being strafed by the guitars, in memoriam of tragedies that came before.
The Old Man's Still An Artist With A Thompson a trip back to the days of Jesus and Orwell, through Kissinger's dark arts, garrotting you in a dank prison, while the laid back brass and slinky rhythm jar against the lyrical darkness, tortured history of war and destruction, give them some more Benzedrine and they will recite the ten commandments with Bobby Seale's manifesto simultaneously. While Fred Hampton still haunts their nightmares, stay off your balconies or Moron Butler will get you in their grips and make sure you bow down for Vipertime.
Slow Wurm opens with a slow guitar figure and stripped back drums, perfect for a slow sax solo drifting through, slowly building to an almost afrobeat feel, for the whitewashing of Jesus Christ to be explained to us, just stop watching documentaries and everything might return to normal once more.
The Easter Parade is one more sorrow filled screed, about everything that's gone wrong, from Darwin's Misogyny to the dead bodies found in the street by the runners near the baseball diamond, fuzzed out guitars and ever present brass, following the forensic team going through the rubble, trying to find meaning in the letters of condolence, the horror of humanities crimes against itself, turned into a reason to find ways to create a better place to live, in the hope that you will actually be remembered, no matter what they claim happened in the bowery.
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