Dali’s Llama Announce Star Resistant – Thirty Songs for Thirty Years Compilation
As one inevitably might, you get a solid mix of styles across the 30 tracks included on Dali’s Llama‘s new anniversary compilation, Star Resistant – Thirty Songs for Thirty Years. True to the title’s dropped hint, it runs the gamut from the band’s 1993 debut, Pre Post Now and the swinging grunge-informed rock of Creative Space (1994) and Being (1995), while reaffirming their root in raw-recorded noise ahead of the digging into heavier rock and the influence of their native Californian desert for records like 2007’s Sweet Sludge and 2008’s Full on Dunes (review here), which was where I got on board.
That was plenty enough time to catch their 20th anniversary comp, Twenty Years Underground (review here), which came out on vinyl in late 2013. I don’t know if there are physical editions planned for Star Resistance, but from a band who’ve only ever worn their collective heart on their sleeve — founding members Zach Huskey and Erica Huskey making an essential core duo — clearly they continue to live by that ethic. They also continue to be wildly undervalued.
Accordingly, if you don’t know the band, think of this one as a no-charge opportunity to explore their work and get a sampling of their growth over the last three decades and a whole lot of material that, by rights, you should probably be paying for. You know I like getting away with something. Here’s what came down the PR wire:
DALI’S LLAMA – Star Resistant – Thirty Songs for Thirty Years
Some of these are kind of rare and some are more well known. This is going to be a Bandcamp download-only release and it will be free (or pay what you can) from December 2 – December 31 (for the last 30 days of the year). We hope you dig it!
There are no songs off of the “Legends of the Desert Vol. 3” split we just did with Fatso Jetson because those songs were released on Desert Records. However, that split and two of our other past albums “Dying In The Sun” and “Full On Dunes” are now available on limited edition cassette through Northern Haze in Canada.
Also, there are no songs on this release that were on our vinyl anthology released ten years ago, “Twenty Years Underground”.
Anyway, this release at 2 hours and 21 minutes is a lotta Llama!
Dali’s Llama
Star Resistant – Thirty Songs For Thirty Years
1. Pre Post Now (Pre Post Now)
2. Creative Space (Creative Space)
3. On It (Creative Space)
4. Sleeping (Creative Space)
5. Longevity (Being)
6. Aboriginal Man Contemplating the Universe Under the Night Sky (The Color of Apples)
7. Beauty Contest (Chordata)
8. Earth Mother Spin (Sweet Sludge)
9. Orca (Sweet Sludge)
10. Love Is Mammoth (Sweet Sludge)
11. Can’t Catch Me (Full On Dunes)
12. Cheap and Portable (Full On Dunes)
13. Floating (Full On Dunes)
14. Theocracy (Raw Is Real)
15. Syphilization (Raw Is Real)
16. Always (Raw Is Real)
17. Flustrated (Howl Do You Do?)
18. I’m The Trouble (Howl Do You Do?)
19. Howl Do You Do? (Howl Do You Do?)
20. Plaid Rainbow (Howl Do You Do?)
21. Nostalgia (Autumn Woods)
22. O.K. Freak Out (Autumn Woods)
23. Claustrophobic Blues (Dying In The Sun)
24. Hocus Pocus (Dying In The Sun)
25. V.O.E ‘73 (Dying In The Sun)
26. Dying In The Sun (Dying In The Sun)
27. Longtime Woman (The Blossom E.P.))
28. Weary (Mercury Sea)
29. Choking On The Same (Mercury Sea)
30. Merricat Blackwood (Dune Lung E.P.)
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