Bush Tetras - Red Heavy (from the "Take the Fall" EP) by Wharf Cat Records published on 2018-01-27T21:46:15Z ORDER LP/CD HERE - www.wharfcatrecords.com ORDER ON BANDCAMP HERE - https://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/take-the-fall The Bush Tetras are back in full force with Take the Fall, their first offering of new music in over ten years and perhaps the most hard-hitting group of songs of their career. Commanding a rocker’s wail almost 30 years in the making, vocalist Cynthia Sley deploys a shuddering power over the album’s careening five tracks, which rail against the reality of heaven and the toll of time in the album’s opener, “True Blue.” Guitar hero and LES noise guitar innovator Pat Place wields phased out distorted slide bombs. Yet her walls of noise explore the nooks and crannies of Dee Pop and newcomer Val Vera’s rhythm ‘n paranoia groove section. Take the Fall has a jaw-dropping energy. It’s a time-won record that will rip your head off. About Bush Tetras New York City legends the Bush Tetras have been making paranoid, groove-centered post-punk since 1979, when Pat Place left James Chance and The Contortions to found the group with singer Cynthia Sley, bassist Laura Kennedy and drummer Dee Pop. Though spared mainstream success in an era when female fronted groups in the charts were pop acts, the Tetras’ single “Too Many Creeps” (1980) was a huge club hit and remains a classic. Their first batch of songs, collected in 1989’s Better Late Than Never, massage the hard angles of no wave into deceptively simple, deadpan grooves that change when you least expect them to and brilliant, idiosyncratic lyrics. The group’s early work is a masterclass in style and playfully infectious. In the mid-90s, the Bush Tetras reformed, morphed and weaponized. 1995 saw the release of Beauty Lies (Produced by Nona Hendryx) after which Laura Kennedy departed the group. Though recorded in 1998, the follow up album Happy would not see release until 2013. Produced by Don Fleming, it also featured bassist Julia Murphy who would remain in the band until 2015. The Tetras welcomed veteran bassist Val Vera as a new permanent member in 2016 and performed live at a sold out tribute for Lou Reed at Lincoln Center in 2017. Genre Rock