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Sludge Test

Label: Cantaloupe Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Money Management For A Better Life; Sludge Test; Punkass Rumbledink: Circadian Mindfuck; Throsp%; Disciplining The Fugitive; Underbidder; Where Have You Gone, Mr. Squeegeeman?; Plague Of The Legions; Danse de la Fureur, Pour les Sept Trompettes.

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Gutbucket: Sludge Test

Read "Sludge Test" reviewed by Abe Pollack


The members of Gutbucket have never been satisfied with the moniker “jazz quartet," nor have they wanted to fit in with stereotypical rockers. Their sound, if it had to be categorized, should be filed under noir-jazz, or maybe klez-rock, but most likely squawk-thrash. This ambiguity shines in their third full-length album, Sludge Test. ...

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Gutbucket: Sludge Test

Read "Sludge Test" reviewed by John Kelman


Ken Thomson, who manages the contemporary classical-focused Cantaloupe Music label, lives a double life playing saxophone for Gutbucket, a quartet whose influences primarily come from jazz and rock. That might seem oddly out of place, but Cantaloupe's output has been surprisingly diverse. Recent releases range from Alarm Will Sound's refreshing reinterpretation of Aphex Twin on Acoustica ...

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Gutbucket: Sludge Test

Read "Sludge Test" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Gutbucket might be the possessed grandchildren of bandleader Spike Jones, except that in the three CDs they have produced, I've yet to hear a gunshot. This modernized version of the blender band has been done before by groups such as Naked City, Blood Duster, and Mr. Bungle, but not nearly as well. Like Spike Jones, this ...


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