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Original Release / S-S Records / SS079
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Andy Human & The Reptoids Andy Human & The Reptoids
01 Blood On The Wall
02 I Got Soul
03 Yes I No
04 Pictures
05 Eye 2 Eye
06 Stutter
07 Big Mouth
08 Reptoid Rock
09 Funny
10 Mutate
11 Biffed Up
Downloaded from Bandcamp
Friday Five: June 26 2015
Album info
smallpaul had a mishap on a couple of tracks on his vinyl rip. To save him the time of reuploading, I shelled out for the Bandcamp download and agreed to replace his rip.
Sorry—and not to be a complete potsie here—but Andy Human served a great deal of time in some of the most generic Power-Pop/Garage bands of Oakland’s last decade (although credit where credit is due: he wasn’t in Apache). This all says nothing of his talent, but his first solo outings with Burger Records & company didn’t turn the tide any, either. His melodramatic “Toy Man” 7″ on TTT showed at least a knack for songcraft, but that was the last I heard from him, and it in no way foreshadowed the turn he’s taken in 2015.
Four years later, he’s re-emerged with a series of teasers for an upcoming LP on Ss Records with his cohorts, The Reptoids. The previews see them cut no corners, finding life in rock ‘n’ roll in a way that The Cuts or Time Flys stopped short of the day they started paying a hanger-on in beer money to carry their 15-pound bag of neckerchiefs. There’s no cookie-cutter, Chesterfield Kings-formula utilized here. Andy’s certainly paid his dues, and I’m sure he gleaned a thing or two in his formative years, but he’s now pushing beyond the template in a way that he couldn’t manage with his former peers.
His new ensemble’s sound could warrant a compassion to Ss reissue benefactor, Ozzie. Even more striking is Andy & Co. pulling influence from the Avant-Rock playground that occurred across Northern Ohio between 1974-1983, while so far able to not wear influence on sleeve.
Ss Said:
“Andy Human & The Reptoids is a great rock and roll band.
In a time where so many bands do little to tweak their influences, Andy Human & The Reptoids do what all great bands do: They take the past, hint at the future, and turn it all into the NOW. With punk energy, a new wave sense of economy, and the tap of power pop, these guys fold in Roxy Music, Devo (both the art and the pop sides), early Eno, and Pere Ubu, while making sounds that are very much their own. Raven Sings the Blues has called Andy Human’s Freeze album “…a wobble of weird that makes the candy coating delightfully astringent…digesting Devo and Gary Numan through a faded VHS glam punk hangover and knocking the results crisply out of stacked speakers.
Andy Human & The Reptoids’ debut contains eleven songs, each one a sonic worm that will burrow into your brain and turn you into a Reptoid-humming zombie. Play side one forever, that’s okay, when it is worn out, you have side two to obsess over. Or keep flipping the thing over until you get carpel tunnel syndrome. Whatever you do, you will listen to this. This isn’t a record that gets lost in the stacks. It is one you wear out.
Andy Human is Andy Jordan. You know him from the Cuts, Time Flys, Buzzer, and LENZ (also Razz, Brain Glaze, and Factrix). He is one of the best Bay Area rock & roll song-writers around and an ace on guitar and keyboards.
The Reptoids are Cripe Jergensen, Beast Man, and Ra Diehl. They’ve been doing time in Drunk Horse, Sir Lord Von Raven, Girls, and LAND. Throw them in a bowl and stir them around and you’ve got a couple dozen records out of them, countless festival and SXSW appearences, and too many tours and shows to count.
Andy Human & the Reptoids play some of the freshest & smartest rock & roll being made today and this record is proof of it.”
Most out-of-nowhere, surprise release of the year so far. Or maybe I just wasn’t playing close enough attention? Possible. “I Got Soul” is a hell of an anthem, amidst struggle and making ends meet in the country’s most expensive city; exuding confidence, with a middle finger aimed at the Google yuppies flooding the streets and pushing residents out of their housing. Will amp up anyone refusing to give up claim to their natural way of life – not to mention just about anyone, anywhere, with something to prove to the naysayers.
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https://andyhumanthereptoids.bandcamp.com/