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l-r: Josh, Hugh, Noel. Photo by Carrie Brown.

By utilizing whatever instrument that happens to be available, no matter how rudimentary, a necessary window into The Lowdown's decidedly tongue-in-cheek creative genius is opened wide. The band is propelled by the relatively standard dueling guitars-and-drums punk rock blueprint; but The Lowdown's equipment happens to be tainted, handicapped, pummeled, weathered. Pushed to the limit, a typically rock format now treads in a wholly other realm of primitive sound. The musical mess The Lowdown creates becomes further perverted through a smattering of drum machines, saxophones, casio keyboards, samples, and a feedbacking tuner.

Revolver II
   The Lowdown
   Josh Alper (Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals)
   Noel Harmonson (Drums, Saxophones, Vocals)
   Hugh Holden (Guitar, Vocals)

Revolver II is The Lowdown's confounding, chemically imbalanced debut full-length recording.  Rest assured, the supersonic splatter factor runs sky high all over this platter.

Revolver II regurgitates raw sound through a complete deconstruction of the musical process.  Each song stumbles ahead with frayed volume, sewn together by intermittent bursts of noise, studio tweaks, and general tomfoolery. Fortified with spastic energy, the band unleashes a spectacle, an all-out assault on the senses, a sonic collage that can make you dance or make you buckle into a spent heap. Revolver II captures this experience and expands upon it, creating a malignant mass of sonorous goo.

Humor, energy, and honest experimentation are all present at The Lowdown's banquet. Revolver II is a toast for all weird occasions.

"...The Lowdown blast off with overdriven electronica and distorted beats that collapse into shambolic rhythms. Their music is a bold, noise-fixated splatter of channeled hysteria, sounding like a kindergarten Atari Teenage Riot." -- The Wire, December 2000

22 tracks in 37:20 minutes.

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