Sweet Music

So you don't hear from a Wisconsinite for over a year then two come along at once, first the Gut Reactions, then The Sugar Stems! OK, I've got to admit that this is my fave piece of work I've done in a long while. Firstly I actually used a pencil to draw it, secondly it's FUN! Thirdly it's Jon E (ex Catholic Boys and all round power pal and tour buddy) and Drew (ex Leghounds!) And of course, last but not least, the band have been turned into a set of teeth that are having some serious fun, even with tooth decay. Great hooks abound in this fine release, available from Bachelor Records.

Blank Its Reject X~Ray's Vision

After a couple of stabs at producing something for the upcoming Blank Its release on Sweet Rot Records X~Ray vision had to concede defeat as we just couldn't bring the ideas of the band to fruition.

The brief for this, as described by Justin from the band is thus:
"And if we could do some version of orange and green
and black with a little white. Or not. Maybe that
could be a color combo. We're pretty into making
'BLANK ITS' kind of big and seperating the two words
or making them seperate. Can't think of enough ideas
to keep people from thinking. About BLANKETS. Some
other ideas that we use alot are blocking out people's
eyes so they are unidentifiable. And then there's the
theme of the three of us.

Then there's the songs. 'Windows Are Dirty' is kind
pissy about how people are always trying to make you
get up and do stuff. I know I need to do stuff. I know
when I want to do it. Heaven forbid I do what I want
to do. When I do it. The title is a visual about
someone telling you to go outside, you know that you
should, but you don't wanna. So as they are telling
you, you're closing the blinds and (picture yourself)
as you're looking through the blinds you can see that
the window is thick with mildew (because you didn't
get up to clean them either) and you can't see outside
anyway. What's the point of closing the....

Anywho, 'Divorce' is about when you're a kid and your
parents are splitting apart. And they are kind of
kiddy. And everything is kind of a blur. All you see
is constant rage. All they see is hurt feelings. The
whole time you're wondering why you didn't see this
coming. Or maybe you did. Who knows? Now you're just
sitting in the back of the car.

That's about as much info as I can fill you in on and
on. Maybe the song topics could be used for a cover
idea. "

The more colourful sleeve was rejected on the grounds of being 'too goofy.'

Hey, you win some, you lose some.

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