DURHAM,CHRISTOPHER ALAN & THE PEACETIME CONSUMERS - KICKS OR MACABRE

"Hark! DIY sleaze-rock henchpersons, ascend from your cellars and rejoice... Midwestern anti-folk hero Christopher Alan Durham (The Bibs, All Gone Recs) arrives on high horse in full-length mode with a band of merry menaces in tow. Following a string of cassette and 7-inch releases for labels like Spacecase and Soft Abuse (whom are also responsible for the gift in hand), Kicks Or Macabre is CAD's first LP outing under his own name, and we're all the better for it. but wait, there's so much more. "Durham and his trusty Peacetime Consumers (ex-Quilt Boy /Roachclip cohorts) conjure up a thicker-than-usual, borderline soulful junk sick blooze that slinks and swaggers like a lean-drunk Flamin' Groovies or Gulcher / Richie-era KV if you traded his happy-go-lucky, confidently carefree dopiness for the frantic urgency of a paranoid loner whose slumlord is putting the screws to him, and look... there ain't enough grass left in that bag to even pack a bat... "But the band plays on, and if Durham's long-running development as a mainstay in the American sub-underground proves to hit it's peak with Kicks, we should consider ourselves lucky to have ever had such good seats in this, the theater of his own strange little lower-middle-class tragedy songs, often reflecting less on the overarching and impossibly big / bad times than they do on the smaller, more understandable, more feelable good ones. "Even luckier for us, he may have only just begun." -Ryan Davis, 2023

Tracklist

• 1. Newest Thing
• 2. Dizzy Land
• 3. Bite Down
• 4. Suburban Girl
• 5. Shoot Through Me
• 6. Party Store Suicide
• 7. C Street Blues
• 8. Turn to Jade
• 9. Trips

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