Amoeba Men “Worried About Your Wiring?” LP Now Available For Free Download!

by | Aug 17, 2010 | MUSIC

Worried About Your Wiring, the second Amoeba Men LP, has been made available for free download by their label, CNP Records. It’s an accurate representation of The Amoeba Men’s live sound, a spastic off-kilter noise that is equal parts art-damaged punk, chaotic math-rock, and something else entirely, not metal but definitely dark and heavy.

Jason Hodges’ vocals sound like the perpetually-surprised holler of a redneck with amnesia, occasionally reflecting the same sort of ironic fascination with lowbrow trash culture that came through in the music of the Butthole Surfers and Scratch Acid, who seem like obvious influences on The Amoeba Men, as do The Cows and early Public Image Ltd. It all adds up to something that is strange and unpredictable but very enjoyable, not in spite of but because of its weirdness.

The sound of the Amoeba Men is something that must be experienced to be believed, and what better opportunity to get acquainted with their craziness than this? Worried About Your Wiring? can be downloaded here, but you also have the option of purchasing it on CD from CNP Records–for only $6!–here. Once you hear it, that’s an option you’ll undoubtedly want to take.

Worried About Your Wiring, the second Amoeba Men LP, has been made available for free download by their label, CNP Records. It’s an accurate representation of The Amoeba Men’s live sound, a spastic off-kilter noise that is equal parts art-damaged punk, chaotic math-rock, and something else entirely, not metal but definitely dark and heavy.

Jason Hodges’ vocals sound like the perpetually-surprised holler of a redneck with amnesia, occasionally reflecting the same sort of ironic fascination with lowbrow trash culture that came through in the music of the Butthole Surfers and Scratch Acid, who seem like obvious influences on The Amoeba Men, as do The Cows and early Public Image Ltd. It all adds up to something that is strange and unpredictable but very enjoyable, not in spite of but because of its weirdness.

The sound of the Amoeba Men is something that must be experienced to be believed, and what better opportunity to get acquainted with their craziness than this? Worried About Your Wiring? can be downloaded here, but you also have the option of purchasing it on CD from CNP Records–for only $6!–here. Once you hear it, that’s an option you’ll undoubtedly want to take.

Marilyn Drew Necci

Marilyn Drew Necci

Former GayRVA editor-in-chief, RVA Magazine editor for print and web. Anxiety expert, proud trans woman, happily married.




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