The Fuses Are Lies

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
The second full length from these Baltimore icons of new wave/art punk. Compared to the Proletariat, Mission of Burma, Wire, and others, The Fuses have been called "without exception, the best hardcore punk band in the galaxy" and "true leaders of a new wave of American punk rock bands" (Rock and Roll Outbreak #2). Recorded in glorious analog at the soon-to-be famous ACR studios (Poem Rocket, Lungfish, Roads To Space Travel, more) for a sound so explosive it seems to strain your speakers even at low volume. Idiosyncratic, but still occasionally melodic guitars, a rumbling bass, and some of the best drumming you're ever likely to hear (seriously!). Reconstructed rock for the bored post-modernist.

The Fuses Are Lies
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • THE FUTURE OF PUNK ROCK!!!
 The Fuses Are Lies

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000051TR7
Release Date: 2000-04-24

Tracks:

  1. Jazz Makes Me Nervous
  2. Klorox Rub Away
  3. I Hate The Parties
  4. The Long And Short Of It
  5. One Bomb Over Washington
  6. Something Terminal
  7. Pills
  8. Rats Go Crawling
  9. Get Clean
  10. Sick City
  11. Solutions R
  12. How I Waste My Time

Album Description

The second full length from these Baltimore icons of new wave/art punk. Compared to the Proletariat, Mission of Burma, Wire, and others, The Fuses have been called "without exception, the best hardcore punk band in the galaxy" and "true leaders of a new wave of American punk rock bands" (Rock and Roll Outbreak #2). Recorded in glorious analog at the soon-to-be famous ACR studios (Poem Rocket, Lungfish, Roads To Space Travel, more) for a sound so explosive it seems to strain your speakers even at low volume. Idiosyncratic, but still occasionally melodic guitars, a rumbling bass, and some of the best drumming you're ever likely to hear (seriously!). Reconstructed rock for the bored post-modernist.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars THE FUTURE OF PUNK ROCK!!!.......2001-02-20

ARE LIES, The Fuses' eery follow-up to 1998's instant classic long-player, I WANNA BURN, stuns the senses with blunt ferocity. Few (if any)punk bands in recent years have managed to match The Fuses' bleak urgency and desperate intensity. ARE LIES is a swift, dark blast of angular, nervous post-punk madness that revisits classic new wave touchstones (Wire, Joy Division, Gang of Four) without sounding overly derivative. This is fresh, vital, spine-tingling fury driven by clashing guitars, paranoid vocals, and insanely marvelous drumming. While contemporary punk rock in general drowns in an ocean of mediocrity, The Fuses continue to sparkle.

Music:

  1. The Invitation
  2. The Retrospects
  3. The Singles 86>98
  4. The Theory of Everything
  5. The World Revolves Around Me
  6. TRANSCULTURAL
  7. Turning on [CD-single] [Import]
  8. Wide Swing Tremolo
  9. Worm Into Phoenix
  10. You're An Ocean

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