On the awesomeness of @fandeathrecords Puerto Rico Flowers 7 release…

The dudes at Baltimore’s Fan Death Records specialize in the kind of indie music that you’d kill to make, and die trying to make a living from. It’s niche rock, made by artists who are all completely amazing, but are in many ways misanthropic-minded ascetics. The heaviest music I heard in 2011 wasn’t some pop-dubstep pitch-shifting cacophony. It was the label’s June 14th-released 7 from John Sharkey III, recording as Puerto Rico Flowers.

If needing an album that sounds like the funeral dirge of a man hit in the throat with an aluminum baseball bat and doomed to hell, you’re in luck. Sharkey’s the Australia-residing ex-lead singer of Philly punk band Clockcleaner and a former smoker, so you get the idea. Songs like “I Feel Good” don’t so much resonate as descend into the shit-disturbing regions of your viscera. Deliciously unpleasant offerings that exit after tasting, the synths and drums here crush your will and hope you die.

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