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Kicking the Dustpan Down

by Andrew Hurst

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Kicking The Dustpan Down Side 1 22:05
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Kicking The Dustpan Down Side 2 22:04
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Kicking The Dustpan Down is Hurst’s 8th solo record (purportedly his personal fave), this album is a kind of leaner, darker bastard son of “Gypsy Jailbreak”, (the sprawling 55 minute epic released a few years prior). With It’s shrewd sequencing and taut production, Hurst’s vivacious Psycho-Surrealist strut crystallizes here with frightening depth and clarity. Recorded amidst the great political and personal upheaval that was 2016- this album taps into the nightmares of this period and puts them to work with harrowing and devastating results.
Leading off side 1 is the doom trip march of War Hero Scramble whose gnawing, noxious chant devolves into a maelstrom of deviant guitar and swirling helicopter tape blues that expertly predicates the charred sensuality of the The Big Freedom. Next, the deck-swabbing Binoculars spots something in the bush of ghosts, and takes a long cold look with a peppermint stick and a flugelhorn chorus. Society HaHa comes next (the title comes from a Peter Saul painting)-here, true mania is attained, bridges burnt, hippos suctioned and rhinos plastered; nothin’ to do but voodoo in a mumu- Blow Out My Brains ambles in to enforce a curfew for ruptured souls- no one here gets out aloof.
Side 2’s leadoff, Vague offers different opportunities, a kind of catfight between Wire and the Pretenders-with Nick Kent spiking the smoothies. What else could follow but The Alabaster Brimstone 64 which contains Hurst’s best 4-string found guitar solo ever (1st take, ya hear!).
A psychic mudslide spews forth from this point on starting with the Mytho-Memorial of Til’ Science Catches Up To My Desire, (a fictional short prose piece originally read at the New York Arts Club that debuted the first installment of Hurst’s Rikki Nail character; his tribute to hardboiled crime writer Ross MacDonald and radio dramatist Joe Frank). The strange, jungle-hipped flambeau of Oaxacan Moonshade lurks in a jaguar laden sound-glade (guest sax by P.D. Fadensonnen). The title track, Kicking The Dustpan Down closes the album with what can only be described as the best (and only?) audio equivalent of a Manson Family style creepy-crawl ever to be conjured up on tape. Hearing is believing.

Available now on Limited Edition Cassette with special foldout signed poster!!!

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released December 1, 2017

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