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Eats Tapes, "Dinosaur Days" 12"
All-out silliness ensues the second this fine 12" starts spinning. Community Library has again proven their dedication to quality vinyl releases and Eats Tapes has proven that the liveliness and giddiness apparent during their live shows can be translated to a recorded format.
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"Dinosaur Days" is an all-out explosion of wiggling, analog bass and skittering percussion that had me on my feet the instant it began bumping. The robotic machinations of Gregory Zifcak's and Marijke Jorritsma's imagination and technology is more playful and more addictive on this 12" than anything found on their Sticky Buttons release and that's saying something. This is a two-sided release, though, and there's no reason to neglect that rubbery, balloon-like chaos of "Ptery D" or the more groove-oriented stagger of "Animal Minded." Eats Tapes like to stick to their four-on-the-floor formula, but the whacked-out tape manipulations and frantic melodies that splatter all over the walls defies categorization.
I had the chance to see them just recently on their Eats Coats tour and their live show was a energized burst of morphing synthetics and odd-ball distortion, much closer to what I'm hearing on this single than what's present on Sticky Buttons. There was a sense of child-like curiosity in their set and the random dancing of several patrons seemed to fit the innocent approach that was putting smiles on everyone's faces. If the fat, honking bass, unusual vocal samples, and even stranger musical deconstructions aren't enough to make even the most serious hipster smile, then I don't anything else will ever be capable.
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