MU, by Sumatraban

MU

by Sumatraban

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1.	Bubble It Out 03:54	buy track
2.	Paralyzed 04:11	buy track
3.	Electric Heat 04:01	buy track
4.	Mondrag 01:31	buy track
5.	Your Name 03:14	buy track
6.	Mutate 02:29	buy track
7.	Jungalam 01:01	buy track
8.	Bulbous Xrunk 05:51	buy track

about

Sumatraban is a rocknroll trio from a coastal village in San Diego, Baja, Calfornia. The group was formed by singer/guitarist/provocateur Glen Galloway (Trumans Water, Soul Junk, Octagrape), who brought on Octagrape drummer T.S. Ward and, after listening to his Shining Path records far too often, coaxed guitarist/organist Preston Swirnoff out of retirement.

Together, through their mutual love of all things motorik, psych-Japan, messthetical, post-post-punkard, and Beefheartian, the 3 have formed a sound they call ‘Now-Wave’. Sculpted via weird acute triangle of contact-mic'd drums, tri-amped guitar sub-octaves, and dripping discordant keys. Big dystopian/utopian ideas are packed into four minute song blasts to maintain urgency. It is the sound of invisible cities, impossible buildings, and extinct waterways. It soon became obvious that they must name themselves after that infamous imaginary Indonesian thoroughfare with no speed limits and a mind-bending roadside view: the Sumatra-bahn.

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released June 29, 2018

Recorded to 4-track cassette by Ben Moore at Singing Serpent

All music by Sumatraban except Electric Heat, by The Visitors (1979)

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