Bolides Over Basra

by Men's Recovery Project

Bolides Over Basra cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Load
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:51
  • Community rating: 3.15/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The notoriously unpredictable noise-rock project, helmed by Sam McPheeters of Born Against, delivers an incredibly dense, chaotic final full-length album. 'Bolides Over Basra' eschews traditional rock instrumentation, relying heavily on abrasive electronic noise, drum machines, and completely unhinged vocal rants. The release is a fiercely confrontational, surreal exploration of post-industrial absurdity.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, noisy, rhythmic, experimental, avant-garde, satirical, genre-blending, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Working for the Mossad (3:17)
  2. In the Eunich's Wine Cellar (3:19)
  3. In Khartoum (2:11)
  4. New Year's Party In a Sweltering Apartment (0:14)
  5. The Olive Salesman (2:32)
  6. Boums To Zanzibar (1:38)
  7. Wreckage In the Empty Quarter (4:50)
  8. Egyptian Assassin (3:02)
  9. Black Albino (2:27)
  10. Sephardic Secrets (2:31)
  11. Aboard a Doomed Tunisian Frigate (0:34)
  12. Joy of the Drunk Tank (2:20)
  13. Rabble, Wretches & Lepers (1:25)
  14. 3AM on the Sunken Highway To Riyadh (3:24)

Credits

  • Men's Recovery Project - primary artist
  • Richard Ivan Pelletier - drums, saxophone
  • Neil Burke - guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
  • Jeremiah Ryan - keyboards, vocals, bass, guitar
  • John Von Ryan - percussion [additional]
  • Sam Bland - vocals, keyboards

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