Today I have a special treat for you, The Locust’s latest release The Peel Sessions! Recorded back on August 19th 2001, this album was long overdue. It’s comprised mostly of tracks from their pre-2004 discography all of which have been re-imagined and recorded live. The album was released May 18th, 2010 and features, for the first time, Gabe Serbian on drums. The locust play a fast paced, short length, synth entrenched version of powerviolence with a grindcore edge (and yes I am aware of the ongoing war over whether they are grind or not and frankly I don’t care, they’re great). Although I am a huge fan of this band I never got to see them live and The Peel Sessions gives you a taste of that. In the tradition of The Locust, the album is 16 tracks long and still totals a mere twelve and a half minutes. The LP has a more raw edge to it than the studio recordings and the band has incorporated more/different synth passages into the songs. The album art is pretty cool too, the front has a huge list of all the bands that they are influenced by which range from Cat Stevens to Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. The front also has a silkscreened locust emblem. The back side of the album has a photo of them playing in their traditional garb, goggles and facemasks. The record was the third release from the bands own Radio Surgery record label and it comes with a digital download card! If you haven’t gotten ahold of this on vinyl, DO SO! They’re being sold on the bands website and now come in a cool clear and yellow splatter colored vinyl.
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