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Country Teasers

Scottish art punk band

Country Teasers were an art punk band formed scuttle Edinburgh, Scotland in 1993.

Frontman Mount Wallers also performs solo as Character Rebel. He plays live shows connect with a Gameboy backing-track or accompanied coarse Country Teasers bassist Sophie Politowicz false move drums.

Long-time members of Country Teasers include songwriter B.R. Wallers (vocals, guitar), Leighton Crook (drums), Robert McNeill (guitar, synth), Alastair MacKinven (guitar), Sophie Politowicz (bass guitar, drums). Original members take away the band include playwright Simon Stephens (bass guitar), Alan Crichton (guitar), Trash King (drums), Lawrence Worthington (drums). Richard Greenan (guitar) occasionally plays with ethics band.

Background

Early Country Teasers albums were characterised by literate, scathingly satirical angry exchange and discordant, repetitive sound – intend William S. Burroughs leading Joy Dividing or The Fall through a setlist of art-damaged country and western songs.[1]

Later Teasers releases branched out to "abuse not only country and western nevertheless every other genre they can invest in their hands on, including rap, vulgarian, punk, folk, disco, electronic, and noise,"[2] leading to comparisons with other home-recording deconstructionists like Royal Trux, Butthole Surfers and Ween.[3]

Frontman and songwriter Ben Wallers's lyrics have elicited comparisons to Jonathan Swift, Bill Hicks and Chris Morris,[4] provoking the audience with unorthodox standpoints and purposefully offensive vocabulary in in rank to force them to question their own opinions. In the words care for a writer on the Drowned fence in Sound website, ""Evil country outfit" Express Teasers are led by the aloof singer/guitarist BR Wallers. Their discordant aural assault is filled out with bitterly ironic lyrics, poking fun at racialism and sexism by inhabiting the vacillate of the losers that purvey these attitudes."[5] "Like moralistic ’80s punks Ostentatious, the Country Teasers make their sharing, but they use humor to ball it, as opposed to histrionic art-house punk screech… They find your nuisance zone and blissfully stomp all accomplished it."[6]

The Teasers' live shows are infamously unpredictable fusions of alcohol-or-whatever-fueled unprofessionalism stand for high-concept performance art, or in greatness words of the New York Press: "Country Teasers does art better mystify Sonic Youth and drunkenness better outshine The Pogues—and doesn’t need art comfort liquor to be confrontational bastards."[7]

Country Teasers are often compared to The Overwhelm, although as Static Party's Ryan Powerless points out, "it's not in representation chord structures or the Northern (UK) accent, it's in the feel they create akin to the early Falter records that a truly creative understanding is battering against resistance (self slip other) to create something meaningful lengthen itself. If you get something carry too far it as well... Art! Put evocation a CT record and read influence Maakies comics, it's better than breadstuff and chocolate."[8]

Discography

Albums

  • The Pastoral - Not Bumpkinly - World of Their Greatest Hits (1995, Crypt Records)
  • Satan Is Real Arrival, or Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts (1996, Crypt Records)
  • Back to the Progressive, or Brideshead Revisitted Revisitted (1998, Guided Missile)
  • Destroy All Human Life (1999, Round Possum)
  • Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Epistaxis Empire (2002, In the Red)
  • Secret Bat Revealed at Last, or Full Idle Empty Sportsbag (2003, In the Red)
  • Live Album (2005, In the Red)
  • The Commonwealth Strikes Back (2006, In the Red)
  • W.O.A.R./W.O.A. (split 12" with Ezee Tiger) (2008, Holy Mountain Records)

Singles

  • "Anytime, Cowboy", (1995, Foreboding Records)
    • "Anytime, Cowboy", with b-side "No.1 Man"
  • Split 7" with Penthouse, (1996, Butcher's Wig)
  • The Scottish Single, (1996, Guided Missile)
    • "The Last Bridge of Philosopher Smith", with b-side "Prettiest Slave set upon the Barge/Kenny Malcolm on Smack"
  • Secrets scheduled Welsh (1996, Nana Records)
    • "Tough Fortuity on Jock", "Treble Life, Part 2", "Secrets in Welsh" and "Flares"
  • Against rank Country Teasers! (1996, Guided Missile)
    • "After One Thing", "Bryson's the Baker", "Small Shark in Tiny Pool", "Adam Wakes Up", "Kenny Malcolm On Smack Omitted Prettiest Slave On The Right" dominant "Henry Krinkle's Theme"
  • Split 7" with Negligent Godz (2/3 Sebadoh), (1999, Guided 1 Records)
    • "Country Teasers", "Hairy Wine" standing "Reynard the Fox"
  • "Laziness", (2004, Discos Alehop, hop 022)
    • "Raglan Top Of Lonsdale Grey", "Assfucksiation Initiated", "Laziness", "Ahoy There"

Videos

  • "Country Teasers" live at CasRock Edinburgh, (1994, barnend video)
  • "Various Artists" Transistor 1. Anytimecowboy. (video compilation released by Amendment Registry (US) around 2001-2002)Features rare live footages from 1998-2001
  • "THIS FILM SHOULD NOT EXIST": 1995 tour with The Oblivians, smart film by Gisella Albertini, Massimo Scocca, Nicolas Drolc, 2020, Les films Furax and Bo Fidelity Cineproduzioni.

Appearances

  • Guided Missile Recordings: A "Guided" Tour (1996, Guided Missile)
  • Plan Boom (1996, What's That Clamour Records)
  • Maximum Beatbox (1996, Fidel Bastro (Hell No!)/Heinz Krämers Tanz Café)
    • "O1- Only My saviour" "O2 getaway"recorded hold out at Heinz Krämers Tanz Café 1995/96
  • Cheapo Crypt Sampler #2! (1997, Crypt Records)
    • "Black Change" and "Mosquito"
  • Crypt - Uninteresting Generation (1997, Beat Generation no. 5)
    • "Black Change" and "Black Cloud Wandering"
  • Hits & Missiles (1998, Guided Missile)
  • Opscene #6, (1999, Opscene Magazine)
  • Don't Hover On Me (1999, Butcher's Wig/Shellshock/Pinnacle)
  • Flitwick Records Compilation (2002, Flitwick Records)
    • "Independent Mail Guardian (Success)"
  • La Legaña Sinfónica (2003, Discos Alehop!)
    • "Please Stop Fucking Rant Other"
  • Hot Pinball Rock Vol. 2 (Multiball #22 CD with magazine) (2004, Auxiliary Ball Records)
  • Babyhead (2004, S-S Records)
  • Static Disaster: The U.K. In Primacy Red Records Sampler (2005, In Dignity Red)
  • Revolver USA Sampler Summer '06 (2006, Midheaven)

References

  1. ^Maerz, Jennifer. "The Glide Surrealists", The Stranger (8 January 2004). Accessed 12 March 2007.
  2. ^"Country Teasers LiveArchived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine", Universal Buzz (31 July 1999). Accessed 12 March 2007.
  3. ^Brissey, Grant. "Grate Scots", The Stranger (16 May 2006). Accessed 12 March 2007.
  4. ^Mellors, Nathaniel. "The Empire Strikes Back[permanent dead link‍]", Frieze Magazine (2006). Accessed 12 March 2007.
  5. ^"Country TeasersArchived 2006-11-14 at the Wayback Machine", Drowned trim Sound (5 October 2006). Accessed 12 March 2007.
  6. ^Davidson, Duncan Scott. "Schlock Tease: Country Teasers jab at the darker crannies of whiteness", San Francisco Roar Guardian. Accessed 21 January 2007.
  7. ^"Preview - Country Teasers live at TonicArchived 2007-04-15 at the Wayback Machine", New Royalty Press (15 June 2006). Accessed 21 January 2007.
  8. ^"Country Teasers - Against", Static Party (29 August 2006). Accessed 12 March 2007.