The Blitzoids

The Blitzoids: Stealing From Helpless Children / Look Up

by Brad Glanden
February 15, 2007

Who were the Blitzoids? The few available resources on the band make one thing perfectly clear: they sound a lot like seminal no-wave band the Residents. It's true: the early work of the Residents--before they started wearing giant eyeball masks, employing narrative structures, and presenting themselves as “pioneering" technophiles--looms large over the Blitzoids' two LPs, reissued as a two-CD set by Ad Hoc Records.

However, if one listens to the Blitzoids under the myopic pretense that they were little more ...