Built on a Weak Spot

This will be up there as far as reissues of the year go. Big props to Ride the Snake for considering this little Pittsburgh artifact worth the time to resurrect from cassette tape purgatory from roughly a decade ago, the second of two cassettes the band released while together. Dead at 24 were very much the anti-Pittsburgh though, for every band that’s ever been discussed on this blog that came out of the city you almost have to completely disregard any preconceived thoughts about Dead at 24 that may have been caused by those write ups. Instead, slow things down to the murk of rigid guitar work and lumbering monotonous drumming with sparsely placed synths throughout that amalgamated into a formal challenge to concert goers that dared to show up. To me, Blast Off Motherfucker! is almost the perfect translation into music for exhaustion and all the surrounding negativity of day to day life. What was surely a confusing and intriguing piece of work for its time is still very much that today. Especially when held up against the sort of underground no-wave/noise/punk that has been swelling for awhile now.

Doug Mosurock has a wonderful write up over at Still Single about the band for anyone that wishes to know more about them. Some may recognize Steve Boyle and his brief time with Swob, whose LP Persis Hussey that was originally slated for release on Project A Bomb from what I understand, was never released. I really really wish someone would do that because I am getting tired of having to listen to mediocre bootlegs that I’m assuming were dubbed from an old cassette. Anyone?

Dead at 24 – When Delirium Comes [MP3]

Anyone wishing to pick up Blast Off Motherfucker! can do so through Ride the Snake. Only 300 500 of these things were pressed and many have already been sold so definitely get on it if you’re looking to get a copy of this with any sort of ease and lack of searching.

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