Stretchheads - Eyeball Origami Aftermath Wit Vegetarian Leg (Blast First)

According to Wikipedia, the nightlife in the Scottish commuter town of Erskine, which lies in close proximity to Glasgow International Airport, simply consists of a Chinese restaurant and a few local pubs. The Stretchheads formed in Erskine in the late 1980s, giving birth to a sound that paired the gibbering soliloquies of singer P6 with a furiously agitated musical backing. Presumably the terminal boredom of life in Erskine played a big part in bringing the berserker punk of the Stretchheads into the world, and while this was always a band that wasn't meant to last, they left a suitably muddy footprint behind them. "Eyeball Origami Aftermath Wit Vegetarian Leg," their first release for Blast First, is a seven-inch single unleashed by four band members who play as though they're in a competition to see who can finish each song first. "Incontinent of Sex" finds P6 strapping on a male falsetto and bellowing "big man! little man!" over blubbery slabs of thick, distorted bass; "Afghanistan Bananastan" is the sound of someone electrifying their fingers in a plug socket then attempting to run as their feet sink into a sticky morass of globby glue. And on it goes, with two more tracks, plenty of unhinged interludes between songs, and a heightened sense of flustered delirium that variously recalls Captain Beefheart, long-forgotten noisemakers the Sperm Wails, Peel favorites Bogshed, the deranged Texas cow-punk of the Butthole Surfers, and Scotland's own Dog Faced Hermans. In 2007, 20 years after the Stretchheads formed, their mantle as Erskine's favorite sons was finally toppled, as the town found a new hero in local resident John Smeaton. Smeaton, an airport baggage handler, bellowed "fucking come on then" as he aimed a swift kick at the man (Kafeel Ahmed) who had just sent a jeep loaded with propane canisters crashing into the doors of the main terminal at Glasgow International Airport.