There are many impressions one might get on a cursory listen to El Schlong?s self-released debut, The Baddies are Coming, and most of them would be glaringly wrong, as I?m sure most of the impressions stated in this review will be. Hopefully, under the casual assumption that at some point they see it, they?ll at least get a good laugh. ?Ha ha ha, he said we sound like Death!? and so forth.

Just a little Death, and not all the time.

The Baddies, as mentioned in the album title, make a militaristic appearance in the opening title track, which on a foundation of warm bass from Nick Baldwin routs a jazzy spazzcore through some admittedly rough production while also showing the death growls and audio plundering that El Schlong emit so casually throughout the disc. The softer piano opening of ?Bungface,? immediately following, is but a momentary respite.

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