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april 23, 2002 - seattle, wa - graceland
from the stranger
FLESHIES, NEW LUCK TOY, SWEARING AT MOTORISTS, IOWASKA
(Graceland, showroom) Here's a lineup catering to rockers with violently erratic mood swings--from the socially irritated to the manic-aggressive. England's Iowaska rants rote lefty politics over gothic metal space jams. The singer sounds like a demonic Katharine Hepburn, and if lyrics about "wicked women perverted by the devil seduced by illusions and phantasms" give you bad open-mic flashbacks, you'll probably find this band's diatribes worse than a Wiccan root canal. Personally, I prefer the politics of the Fleshies, a spastic punk act that puts on phantasm-free shows, with a singer who cannonballs around the room in tighty-whities, spraying the spit about giant meatballs and dumb cops. Swearing at Motorists is a band for the times when passive turns aggressive--an intense duo fronted by a guy who looks like he's really gonna drive his guitar through the wall the next time the missus shits on his heart.
JENNIFER MAERZ
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