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Arab On Radar, from Providence (Rhode Island), comprises singer Eric
"Post-Traumatic Stress" Paul, guitarists
Steve "Type A" Mattos and Jeff "Clinical Depression" Schneider,
and drummer Craig "Obsessive Compulsive" Kurek.
On the early singles, Kangaroo (Heparin, 1997) and
Swimming With A Hard-On (Load, 1998),
they played an artsy brand of
noise-rock that borrows evenly from new wave and beach-punk.
Queen Hygiene II (Heparin, 1998 - 31G, 2003), their first album, continued on
that war path with terrifying blasts of chaos.
Rough Day At The Orifice (On Pop Pop, 1999 - 31G, 2003) is a demented collage of
feverish and feral sounds, vaguely approaching the state of music, somewhere
along the twisted line that straddles
Red Crayola,
Pop Group,
Mars,
Pere Ubu,
and
Six Finger Satellite.
Soak The Saddle (Skin Graft, 2000) is the music of very angry (and
very spastic) youth: psychotic melodies, manic pace, abrasive guitars,
punk-rock and Japanese-grade noise.
Yahweh Or The Highway (Skin Graft, 2001) is
another very short album, like the previous ones, with only
eight songs to document the band's progress. It leaves the feeling that the kids
are growing up, and that they are shunning the most obviously childish excesses
of their early albums. Despite the intent, this remains a concentrate of wildly
dissonant punk-rock, not exactly recommended to fans of the Beatles.
The Stolen Singles (Three One G, 2003) collects rarities.
Chinese Stars is vocalist Eric Paul and drummer Craig Kurek of Arab On Radar,
guitarist Paul Vieira and Six Finger Satellite's drummer Rick Pelletier (now on bass). The five-song EP
Turbo Mattress (Skin Graft, 2003), the mini-album
A Rare Sensation (31G, 2004) and
Listen To Your Left Brain (Three One G, 2007)
are diligent variants on the
funk-punk fusion aesthetic.
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