Monster My Monster and the beat punk poetry of "TZ Appliance"

 

"and he cleans it up / it's just as good as new / he replaced the drawers / and he's painted the screws / but it's still not good enough /  for you / you're gonna take it though / this isn't the kind of place you go / if you don't have to..."


"This is a song about my time working as an appliance repair person and slowly realizing that the owner was a drug addict who lived in his store." 

The beat punk poetry of "TZ Appliance" by the enigmatic Monster My Monster gets down and dirty. The storytelling here with mopped up abstractions and hard truths in black and white high definition photography (on film mind you) is relatable to me, anyway. The sonics, the musical aesthetic, a tortured blend of 80's surf punk and ska feels like if, in 1984, Tom Waits and Van Morrison (in a constant state of well balanced inebriation) penned a song, cut it with Van singing and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Bad Religion providing the musical bed.

"and he cleans it up / it's just as good as new / he replaced the drawers / and he's painted the screws / but it's still not good enough /  for you / you're gonna take it though / this isn't the kind of place you go / if you don't have to..."

The lyrics, strung together in a Pere Ubu / Tom Waits busker punk way are the kind of stark imagery that you will drown in and like it. The song might be messy in spots, might meander a bit but it feels, to me, pretty perfect in its imperfections. Fuck yeah. 

From the Monster My Monster five track album "Animal Pictures".

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDeBAKfB0EJerhmG9ipvQw

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7yJi9CxUAbAlWtd3JmIfFP



TZ Appliance · Monster My Monster Animal Pictures ℗ 2860373 Records DK Released on: 2024-07-05

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