Libyan Hit Squad - Fiji !
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11/15/2018 10:06AM
Libyan Hit Squad - Fiji
Ripping Records 2007 LP
SIDE A
01. Triggers And Knives
02. Joke's On You
03. Orlando, FL
04. Long Way
05. BHS
SIDE B
06. Total Recall
07. Fiji Pt. 1
08. Break
09. Fiji Pt. 2
10. Street Light
Craig Englund - Bass, Vocals
Chad Puntel - Guitar, Vocals
Shawn Starkey - Drums
Their debut LP! Awesome experimental punk! Think of early Meat Puppets meets Minutemen with DK and the Sonics thrown in. (Rippings Recs.)
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Fiji really shows the band progressing in their sound, LHS never fail to amaze me. Now that their full-length promo CD has finally found a proper release on vinyl with Ripping Records, it’s like hearing the album all over again. LHS exist in their own musical dimension of Black Flag, Love and The Minutemen.
Fiji kicks off with the folk-rocker "Triggers & Knives", which could have been recorded by Arthur Lee and company back in the ‘60s. Then you’re immediately thrown into the hardcore melee of the next three songs until side A closes with the syncopated instrumental "BHS". Side B gets even more out there with two eerie instrumentals, a folk punk number, a straight-up hardcore thrasher and a weirdo Butthole Surfers-style track.
LHS are punk rock at its challenging, unpredictable, original best. There’s something about Florida… ~Mr Phreek @The Big Takeover
LHS are punk rock at its challenging, unpredictable, original best. There’s something about Florida… ~Mr Phreek @The Big Takeover
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Libyan Hit Squad just keep getting better and better. Their 'Death Metal in Jerusalem' 7" not only had the best cover of "The Witch" by The Sonics that I've ever heard but the three original songs on the EP were some of the most authentic and unique blasts of garage punk fury that I'd heard in a long time. Now, with their first LP, this Floridian trio mixes the aggression of Black Flag, the insane musicianship of The Pagans, the passion of Love and the rip-roarin' of The Sonics into a unified idea and really make it work. Three instrumentals on the album further accentuate the talent of the band, simultaneously recalling the chromatic noodling of Black Flag's 'The Process of Weeding Out' and dark inner space of Love's "Emotions. ~? @Storenvy
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Craig "Chachy" Englund interview extract:
"My first band was the band I was in the longest; Libyan Hit Squad. My school bus punk friend and I decided to start a band with two others. We named it Libyan Hit Squad after a song on the Alternative Tentacles compilation 'Not So Quiet on the Western Front' called "Libyan Hit Squad" by Tongue Evulsion.
I guess the cause was we were kids and wanted to be more like our idols. We played a friends party and found very quickly that you could be the most awkward kid in the school but if you had a band that could play Agent Orange’s "Bloodstains" without fucking up you had a shot with the girls, and the jocks for some reason were also impressed. So… that helped with our ambitions."
I guess the cause was we were kids and wanted to be more like our idols. We played a friends party and found very quickly that you could be the most awkward kid in the school but if you had a band that could play Agent Orange’s "Bloodstains" without fucking up you had a shot with the girls, and the jocks for some reason were also impressed. So… that helped with our ambitions."
Read entire interview @StipulatedConflict
Si 'Death Metal in Jerusalem' mettait l'eau à la bouche, leur premier album enfonce définitivement le clou dans la gorge!
Devenu un trio depuis que les gratteux se sont barrés et que Chad les remplace, le combo laisse libre court à ses envies et s'envole.
Oui LHS décolle, car décidément, ce groupe sait pousser l'aventure beaucoup plus loin que la plupart, touchant divers styles et horizons en même temps que notre imaginaire.
C'est le cas d'entrée avec un morceau hybride entre folk rock et psyché, juste avant de cogner dur avec un hardcore soutenu et innovateur sur trois titres addictifs. L'instru "BHS" qui clôture la face est une sorte de post-rock/punk inventif et accrocheur.
"Total Recall" sonne un brin Butthole Surfers première époque, en plus imprévisible encore.
Les deux parties instru "Fiji" tâtent vers l'expé de manière fort habile, louchant vers Devo et Residents d'un regard torve.
"Break" défonce le punk qui est en toi et les préjugés qui vont avec, pendant que "Street Light" assène le coup de grâce de façon magistrale, à mi-chemin entre cauchemar et rêve éveillé.
Inventifs, ils le restent tout au long de cette demi-heure qui fuse bien trop vite, dont le goût reste en tête longtemps, et dont les tympans raffolent.
Le manque se fait dès lors vite sentir, mais il faudra attendre près de cinq années avant de pouvoir entendre le Squad à nouveau.
Ce sera sur 'Full Circle', un split LP paru chez Ripping Records avec Round Eye, groupe où officie dorénavant Craig aka 'Chachy' depuis qu'il a quitté sa Floride natale pour le Shanghai tentaculaire d'en Chine!
Ce sera sur 'Full Circle', un split LP paru chez Ripping Records avec Round Eye, groupe où officie dorénavant Craig aka 'Chachy' depuis qu'il a quitté sa Floride natale pour le Shanghai tentaculaire d'en Chine!
Ripping Records a repressé l'album de LHS en 2013, l'occasion de t'en choper une copie encore tiède...
Suite de l'aventure sous peu donc, car il n'est pas dit que tu doives te contenter des miettes!
Same Rip specs as usual, now it's the same as the trigger, it's the same as the knife, to be alive!
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