the of mirror eye

* Les Rallizes Denudes: The Last One (25.0 mb)
From Blind Baby Has Its Mother Eyes

One of the problems with having a favorite band that doesn’t release “proper” recordings, is that, well, their recordings are incredibly hard to come by. And when you can find them, they’re incredibly shoddy bootlegs with little to no information, super limited and incredibly expensive. Unfortunately, Les Rallizes Denudes (look here and here) is one such band.

Also unfortunate is that I just can’t get enough of them. I think Mr. Julian Cope describes their appeal best with this passage

Seemingly endless sonic flame-throwers of phased white noise streak across your inner landscape, as stupidly loud and overly-backlit lead guitar emissions perpetrated by a perpetually be-shaded longhair pummel the similarly be-shaded but barely adequate musical backing that sags and creaks under the wattage. Occasionally, lead vocals of a singular variety are provided by said be-shaded mad axeman, whose paranoid personality ensures all songs are delivered in a voice of querulous subterranean gargling from beyond the valley of Alan Vega. (Julian Cope)

With my current situation (being that I’ve bet someone that I won’t buy music for the whole year) what it was also very unfortunate that I found out about a quintet of releases on a Japanese label about three weeks too late. It nearly broke my heart to see these listed and I almost lost the bet right then and there. But luckily, with the magic of the internet, I’ve managed to track down some other bootlegs to slightly quench my thirst for all things Les Rallizes Denudes.

This track, the appropriately named “The Last One” was a popular closing song for this band and is wonderful in its caveman-like simplicity of the rhythm section (which the bassist still manages to screw up somehow) over which the guitarist practices his feedback skills to great effect. Enjoy!

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