Final Solutions--Disco Eraser
Misprint 2003
Based on their superb "Eat Shit" 7" from awhile back, a full-length Final Solutions release couldn't have come soon enough. With expectations everywhere so high, the pressure on the band to deliver after that initial promise must've been suffocating. If it was, you'd never know. Disco Eraser seeps effortlessly with razor sharp purpose and importance.
Thanks in large part to Disco Eraser's cleaner, more fleshed out production, an art damaged slant is evident in the Final Solutions style which doesn't really show up when they play onstage. This is still as powerful a wall of grating negativity as the band is live. However, the shapened sense of angularity on these recordings does give the music greater depth. It's not a deal breaker by any means--more like another door of truth opening and illuminating your reality.
Just as on their Theraputic 7", the Final Solutions bring it here with a batch of incredible songs. Tunes like "No Final Solution" and "Electrofied" will certainly appease those who prefer the band's most stripped down efforts, while the clipped sounding "I Can't Sing Through My Fuzz Pedal" will provide a bit more of a challenge for those who crave it. These two halves of the band's style meld together best on Disco Eraser's title track, serving as the perfect microcosm of the album's whole. However, the best song on this platter comes in the form of "I See You On A Path." Perhaps the record's softest track, this one has a sinister tension to it which is augmented by dashes of sarcastically taunting background vocals--perfection, through and through.
In the end, Disco Eraser serves as indisputable confirmation that the Final Solutions are the kings of smartass, hateful punk rock n' roll. Those familiar with Jimmie Jewlz' exploits in the Reatards and Lost Sounds will love this disc and so too will fans of classic Pere Ubu. It's nice when a band's initial flash of brilliance gets followed up on properly. This LP proves the Final Solutions were much more than a four song wonder. Extremely worth the wait.
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