(No Wave, Hardcore, Punk, Avantgarde, Noise Rock) [LP] [16/44] Stretchheads ‎– Five Fingers, Four Thingers, A Thumb, A Facelift, And A New Identity - 1988, FLAC (tracks)

01. Fans (0:12)
02. Long Faced German (1:34)
03. Headache (1:02)
04. Asylum Suck (0:52)
05. Skin Rip (1:26)
06. Yiddish Yoddle (1:48)
07. Shape & Cleanse (1:14)
08. Land Of Ming (1:08)
09. Rex Perplexed (1:11)
10. Semtex/untitled interlude (1:40)
11. I Should Be So Lucky/Confront (2:14)
12. Sidatorium (1:17)
13. Spleng (1:05)
14. Archive Footage Of A Fish (0:55)
15. Jaw Box (1:35)
16. Chicken Fish (0:36)
17. Everything's Going To Brake In A Minute (1:00)
18. Illness (0:46)
19. Cancer (2:36)
20. Shut Up (0:21)

Recorded in Edinburgh 17/18 September 88.

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atertiarysource.blogspot.co.uk wrote:

This album, which has been described as 'ejaculatory spazzcore', is an absolutely terrific blend of insanity, no-wave, hardcore punk, and poor musicianship. Stretchheads were from Scotland in the late 1980s, and on their debut they provided some mind-melting riffs, and in equal parts a near-indecipherable sense of humour. Vocalist P6, also known as Fat Bastard (roughly 10 years before those awful Austin Powers movies came to fruition) has been described as inhuman, reminiscent of nothing so much as Sesame Street's Grover with electrodes affixed to his genitals". These quotes come with a disarming sense of accuracy. Stretchheads genuinely make the most of 25 minutes, living true to their band name from start to finish. Easily mistaken for a bunch of pissed off teenagers throwing amplifiers at each other in a recording studio, Five Fingers, Four Thingers, a Thumb, a Facelift and a New Identity is emblematic of the raw, unaltered disorganization that true punk fans crave. A genuinely disorienting album with punishing riffs, this is some of the best punk I've ever heard.

fuckedbynoise.blogspot.com wrote:

From 1987 - 1991, Scotland was responsible for keep this band out of whatever institution they rightfully belonged in. Stretchheads were a punch of punks making some really original, incredibly weird noise rock influenced by no-wave, hardcore and the inability to play any of their respective instruments. This album (it has a long title and I don't want to type it again) are 20 short tracks (i.e under 3 minutes) of weird chords, deranged, screamed vocals and an incredibly off kilter sense of humour. No-one seems to remember these guys nowadays, which is real shame, because they were making some of most alienating, unlistenable noise rock at the time.