Freewheel

TRACKS Side A Ephedrine  Knott St.  Josh Has A Crush On A Femme From Reed  28 Second Squid  Camp 18  Let's Everyone Do It Freemason Love Triangle Goethe's Letter To Vic Chesnutt Concrete The I Suck Mexico Siren Krankenhaus Clique Town Detective Serious Cat Montgomery! Product Movie Cop Soundtrack RELEASE DATE 7/13/2010 You'd be hard pressed to find a better chunk of bizarro-pop entertainment value than this inspired oddity from Portland's New Bad Things. Not only do they cram 18 songs into a little over 40 minutes of disc, but each and every tune is in turn crammped with a disturbed headful of wriggling squiggling sound. Guitar parts fornicate while trumpets spasm, vocals drift in and out like peculiar odors, and the whole thing ends up sounding like actual songs. The New Bad Things aren't the first or only band to be gleefully distorting bubblegum-simple pop constructions with a funhouse mirror approach to soundcraft, but Freewheel proves they're exceptionally good at it. "