Boo-Boo (version)

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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 31:12

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03.16.10
A terrifically propulsive, brittle groove trio with dry post-punk rhythms way up front
1999 | Label: Teenbeat / IODA

Mark Robinson's main band in the late '90s (and intermittently thereafter) was this terrifically propulsive, brittle groove trio with Cold Cold Hearts bassist Nattles and True Love Always drummer Matt Datesman, which pushed its dry post-punk rhythms way up front (check out the death-disco throb of "Happy Adventure"). Robinson had been experimenting with remixing Teenbeat and other material for a while, and Boo-Boo (Version) — initially released as the vinyl version of Flin Flon's second record — altered that album's mixes to the point of drastically restructuring the songs. Robinson's lyrics here are a blatant excuse for his voice to become the band's fourth idiosyncratic sonic texture: The words to "Jumpers," for instance, appear to have been transcribed from a dental surgeon's work notes.

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