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I've been to Mobile, Alabama twice and both times it sucked. The first time, we were invited to stay with a teen, who didn't tell his folks and whose folks were quite upset that they had two strange punkers in their house. The teen and his excited younger sibling fought for our visit with all the vigor you could expect from strangers. Finally we got to sleep outside, which was fine by us. The teen joined us all the while cursing his parents. He also curesed that Mobile was a place with nothing to do. I listen to the Hibachi Stranglers and I hear the same kind of "fuck you Dad"/"my town sucks" punk rock pioneered by the great Angry Samoans, who have a pretty strong hold on these folks. Great garage punk that flails about with much excitedness. A very pleasant surprise! 500 press on orange vinyl.
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Mobile, Alabama's Hibachi Stranglers have just released one of the best debut singles of the year on Florida's Dying and their brokenly bombastic beauty of a trainwreck will make you a believer within seconds. Like the Black Lips seen through the eyes of a teenage Metal Mike, but without the 60s influences.
Victim Of Time
The Hibachi Stranglers debut came out last week on the southern Florida's Dying label. As the tunes on their micepiss site had promised, they lived up to a beautifully clamorous combination of drunkenly waltzing GUN CLUBish dins to eerie tunneled vocals interwoven with mobbish back-ups. On the A-side of this single, the Stranglers "Parking Lot" starts off with the most retarded, flat guitar chord that alternates channels, and then slides into a very Glue Wave fuzzed-out noise. As the barely sung/talk style vocals enter you realize that this band's sound comes from so many different angles at once. You can pick-out the sneer of the moronic brilliance of the Angry Samoans, but with sloppy and rambunctious backing vocals, and the guitar sounds as if it were played from an abyssal and metallic grave. On the B-side, they come completely unGlued with "Dub Devoid" with more echoed vocal tracks, weird and discomforting intonations that don't fall too far from the weirder Spits stuff, and lyrics that pelt out a caprice of doom-hearted glee.
Victim Of Time
The Fact that this fantastic debut erupted from Mo-fucking-bile, Alabama has gotta send shivers down the spines of "punk mecca" inhabitants of every stripe. The HIBACHI STRANGLERS have that outta-nowhere greatness that makes you wonder just how they did it: the sont of Angry Samoans (the vox cause a double-take) coupled with a choppy guitar attack, precision trash production, and an intelligent handle on making god outta yer own feces. "Parking Lot" depicts a world of shit... yet remains one of the best tunes I've heard all year. Who knew? Get this or kick yourself come year-end top ten time. (MC)
MAximum Rock N Roll
The Hibachi Stranglers were ..1 on my list of bands-I-have-heard-of-but-never-actually-heard for quite some time based solely on their name. Hibachi Stranglers. Ridiculous yet cool. And for once, I'm not disappointed when finally hearing a band off said list. "Parking Lot" contains some eerliy Saunders-ian sounding stream-of-consciousness voxing (with great lyrics), backed by some doofy "oh-oh-oh-oh"-ings, while the rhythm section tumbles out some primo lo-fi low-end and muffled drumming. Then some cranked guitar steps in every few moments and just cleaves the whole thing apart. Ace-sounding punk damage. The B-Side took a few listens to finally sink in, but is nearly as good as the A-Side. The Metal Mikey-esque yammering is replaced with some alternating gang-yells and a monotone chorus delivered deadpan-style whilst the guitar player goes onna slashing rampage and the bass grumbles even deeper than before. Not what I was expecting at all, and a whole lot more than I was hoping for, this provides some from-left-field sounds inna definite punk-type vein. Florida's Dying's finest release to date. A+ record, will listen to again. Scum stats: first 100 on red vinyl with blue sleeve, the rest on black with white sleeve.(RK)
Terminal Boredom
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Made it in 3 Terminal Boredom contributors' best of 2006
I was anticipating this one for a while, and it was more than I hoped for. Strange yet undeniably and sloppily punk-rock sounding. Rich Kroneiss
Not enough good punk rock out there, I tells ya. This 'Samoans through the oughts artpunk filter fills that gap nicely. Todd Trickknee
Fugged up, yet precise and coherent, creepy, over-the-top garage punk. Fresh, brash, instantly memorable. A masterpiece for the new millennium. Jay Litchfield
Skilled and obsessive mailorder patrons are probably well acquainted with Florida's Dying already. If you're in the dark, the strength of Our City Doesn't Stink All The Time, the debut release from THE HIBACHI STRANGLERS, oughta give you enough reason to become one of their customers. Assuming you caught my review of the single and issue or two back, you already know how stunned I was by this puppy. The unexpected wallop of this single stands as one of my favorite moments of last year and, judging by www.floridasdying.com, you might actually still be able to score a copy of this RIGHT NOW. Recommended! Mitch Cardwell's "Lets Get Hurt Column" Maximum Rock N Roll
HS talk the talk and walk the walk. Parking Lot and Dub Devoid are two brilliant low fidelity scorchers, hotter than the plastic seats of VW Beetle parked in the sun the whole day. Can I have some more of this, please?Lowcut Zine Top ten of 2006
PARKING LOT! Hibachi Stranglers are like the Angy Samoans stretched out and twisted into an Alabama Sunrise! Mutant head-dos, great guitars, WE LOVE IT!- Goner Records
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