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Razorcake | Punk Music Reviews /// KILL KILL KILL - 7" EP by Vacant Fever -
“Brief, fuzzy, and precise barely-post-minimal almost-art-rock that seems at times like it is trying to mentally insert a large, densely-studded silicon rubber centipede into my lower intestine so it can teach me to enjoy it when it pulls the centipede slowly out of my butt. The first couple songs were over three minutes long and i thought maybe they were too serious/pretentious/whatever for me, but the minute-something songs like “Yeah Yeah” and “Like It Or Not” are actually pretty cool, and briefly reminded me of “Psychocandy” era Jesus & Mary Chain doing Wanderers covers, although i overcame that hallucination with the power of my oversized mutant brain. Now, if you’ll excuse me, i have to see a man about a large, densely-studded centipede. Good day. BEST SONG: “Yeah Yeah” BEST SONG TITLE: “Yeah Yeah,” especially if you’re the Revillos. FANTASTIC AMAZING TRIVIA FACT: Not surprisingly, the tits on the cover prevented me from noticing the bloody nose on the cover for quite some time.”
–Rev. Norb
Vacant Fever /// KILL KILL KILL - 7” /// “Vinyl of the Month” in Performer Magazine. Check out the review…
Performer Magazine makes the KILL KILL KILL 7", by VACANT FEVER "Vinyl of the Month" -
“Fans of pre-Nevermind Nirvana will want to snatch this up in a heart beat; while not exactly aping the feeling of Bleach, the record none-the-less evokes the same spirit of rock and roll missing from their fellow Washingtonians’ more polished release.”
-Benjamin Ricci (Performer Magazine)
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Vacant Fever /// Heparin & Saline
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The Vinyl Anachronist /// Heparin & Saline on LP & CD -
“I don’t want to be presumptuous here, but when I listen Heparin & Saline, I think about drugs. I’m not talking about ends of ropes, Shannon Hoon and Layne Staley’s last two weeks on earth or anything so destructive and desperate, but perhaps the volatile brand of fuel that deliveredWhite Light/White Heat to the unsuspecting masses, or anything the Spacemen 3 did in the early ’90s.”
-Marc Phillips
The Styrofoam Drone /// 7" EP Review of "KILL KILL KILL" -
“Pulsing rhythms and sweeping guitar waves exemplify their sound accurately in a song like “Like It or Not”, which is a short and concentrated snapshot of Vacant Fever’s curiously grasping sound. Following that is “Don’t Look Down” which helps further prove this bands menacing, post-punk attitude. The track drips with a dark and twisted energy driven by grungy guitar shards and bruising, tom-heavy drumming, hereby leaving us hungry for any future releases from the band.”
- The Styrofoam Drone
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7 i n c h e s .blogspot /// Kill Kill Kill 7" Review -
“Vacant Fever, who are playing around with the unused, extreme settings on weirdo pedals to create idiosyncratic massive grooves over complex drum arrangements that never veer into math, but more jazz or progressive inspired rhythms.”
-Jason