Search - Landspeedrecord :: Unfailurelessness

2009 release, the seventh album from the Baltimore Alt-Rockers. Founded in 1996, Landspeedrecord! was a combination of seminal '90s Baltimore Post-Punk bands Octopus, Glazeride, and Buttsteak. The band is the parental unit and mental health physician of front person/guitarist Charley Jamison, drummer/humorist Marc Berrong, front person/guitarist Ron Spencer, and bassist/mentor Thomas Stehr. Jamison's lyrical subject matter delves into surreal and uncomfortable topics: car crashes, post-teen pregnancy, post genX isolation, bi-polar disorders, lack-of-saliva disorder and even cannibalistic snakes. It's not happy stuff, but despite their darkly perverse and often downright scary lyrical nature, the band's instrumentation is conversely bright, melodic, and 'uncontained'. They've been called 'a strong mix of '60s Garage/'70s Rock/late '80s Punk packaged in a sleek Post-Pop-Punk container and served to the listener'.