Gaswar have finally released there debut album the brilliantly titled Girl Vanishes On Way To Jive Club almost 25 years after the majority of the album was recorded with Mike Wisti in Minneapolis before Gaswar members Apollo Liftoff, Jeff Mooridian and Kevin Rutmanis other activities took over, as they worked and performed with Tomahawk, The Melvins and Vaz, after the tapes were re-activated they have been properly mixed and few overdubs added by Pseudo Beast before Berd Heinrauch mastered the album ready for release on virgin white vinyl.
The album opens with Get Down Moses a frenetic clattering Fall like tune with distended urgency as the deadpan vocals intone as the drumming gets more intense the guitars splintering all over the place.
Memories Of Steam moves John Cale's Days Of Steam into the 21st century, with a chugging riff with Hoffman Press noises, as black lung and other downsides of steam are dealt with through the Thom Yorke crossed with Steven Malkmus vocals.
Lion has the roar of Budd era Rapeman, but with more guitars, as the vocals are buried in intense squalls of sound. Slabs of noise revolve through the dense mix.
Terrible Day To Have Eyes is a horror show of modern dimensions, you can't help but look, but really wish you hadn't, the pulsar drilling noises accentuate the pain and horror being witnessed.
The B-side opens with Debra Never Felt So Dirty In Her Life as she's found staggering out of the dark room in a very weird fetish club, as raging dental drills fight with a manic propulsive drums, siren sounds disorientate. No remotely seductive sounds are heard as Debra tries to get her head round the mambo she has been involved in.
Midnight At The Bush Foundation is as dark and scary as the title suggests, as the thought of being at a late night event at the Bush Foundation, with the twins on the prowl, as the laconic bassline allows the treated vocals to impinge on your mind, making the fraught dilemma clear.
Mom + Dad +Father is intensely weird scenarios of what your parents do with the Monsignor, as the drums crash into the guitars taking you off into your own private hell.
The album closes with Father Complex And the Solution Of The Rat Idea takes free form percussion jammed into disturbing levels of disquiet, as the low vocals delve into the mysteries of your father complex an how that interacts with the Rat Idea with pulsars getting to the heart of the dilemma.
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