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[exclusive] Black Helicopter "That Specific Function," 04.08.11 @ Brighton Music Hall


To celebrate their Brighton Music Hall debut Friday night with Obits and Reports, the fine gentlemen of Boston sludge-rock quartet BLACK HELICOPTER have passed along a free download of their rare and out-of-print 2003 debut, That Specific Function (released by Jonah Jenkins off his Traktor7 label). As an added bonus, they've also passed along the record's companion piece, a spoken word album dubbed The Kerm Field Recordings.

Explains Black Helicopter bassist Zack Lazar: "The lyrics are based on the rambling asides of a scratch ticket aficionado and out-of-work alcoholic trucker who frequented the convenience store our guitarist, Tim Shea, and drummer, Matt Nicholas, worked graveyard shifts at in the early '90s. They started recording him on a boom box behind the counter. The album is concept born of those covert recordings... it has kind of shaped the mood of the band going forward."

Fucking A. Download both via Soundcloud below:

 

Black Helicopter "That Specific Function" by BostonPhoenix

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Black Helicopter "The Kerm Field Recordings" by BostonPhoenix

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Still with us? Then check out two streams from OBITS' latest SubPop release, Moody, Standard And Poor, as well as the video for "You Gotta Lose." 

DOWNLOAD: Obits "You Gotta Lose" [mp3]

DOWNLOAD: Obits "Shift Operator" [mp3] 

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    April 6, 2011 6:27 PM
  • Michael Marotta said:

    Figures there's criminal defense lawyer spam in a Black Helicopter post.

    April 6, 2011 6:37 PM

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