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The latest (and sadly, final) album from Static's clown princes of musical mayhem includes songs about cows, guns, blind girls and an East Side restaurant. (We don't know what it means either, but it sure sounds cool!)
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Honestly, I have no idea where to even
start talking about Twitch. It's almost as if they took every genre of
music they could find and somehow made a coherent repertoire of music
out of it. It's jazz, rock, funk and so much more. Come on, how many
other bands are talented enough to integrate a slide whistle or a duck
call into their sound and maintain credibility? If you are going to
force me to make some comparisons to other bands I would have to say
that I would choose Fishbone and Primus. Although, their song Little
Blind Girl reminds me of the Nirvana song Turnaround, as if that is a
bad thing. The album ends with an instrumental that is probably the most
appropriate way of saying "it's been a fun ride, but it's time to go." I don't know why these guys quite or why
they aren't famous and taking all of our money away. Too damn talented
for their own good I guess. - Erik Kluiber,
The Michigander
It’s an unfortunate thing
when musicians work a sound, get it right, but don’t receive
enough success to keep it going. Rob Bullock, Tim Taebel and Scott
Lemenski made up the trio Twitch for the past decade or so. Twitch’s
brand of music is eclectic, quirky, funny, rocking, punk and jazzy —
virtually every word you could use to describe the wide spectrum of
modern rock. Long Ride on a Short Bus is a 16-song sample from the
band’s unusual catalog, a memorial of what was, as the guys have decided
to hang up the performance insanity and move out from under the
spotlight. On Long Ride, Twitch rocks like an uncomfortable spasm —
somewhere between a Primus acid trip and a Fishbone freak out. Songs
like “Little Blind Girl,” “Hot Karl” and “Sage” emphasize the bass-heavy
funk songs; while songs like “Mikey Yanagita” and “Massacre” (on the
back end of the CD) push the detonator on the experimental jazz button,
exploding sound into a highly bizarre, but truly entertaining listen.
Reason to Buy: You’re abnormal and that’s okay. Best Listening
Experience: “Tangerine.” - B.J.
Hammerstein, Real Detroit
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I have to start out by
saying that this is probably one of the most interesting albums we've
ever received (with the exception of the tape of an old man talking
about his dog for an hour). This 16 song album is a final farewell from
these 11 year veterans of the Detroit music scene.