Reviewed by Allen Lulu
Released: 1981 Tav Falco’s Panther Burns Behind The Magnolia Curtain Genre: Lo-Fi Rockabilly Rating: 0.5 out of 5 Not Falco. Tav Falco. I’ve never experienced this before. A record that is so highly regarded (by allmusic, at least, but Thom Jurek is a pretty savvy reviewer) to be given 5 stars and yet be something that I’ve never come across. At all. Not even in the trades. Alex Chilton played on this, fwiw and the album was recorded in 6 hours. It sounds like it. This is some lo lo lo fi, super muddy production. And, to be honest, coming on the heels of the razor blade focus of Stray Cats’ debut (never mind just about anyone else playing in this sandbox) I find it grating. The soundtrack to High School Confidential is preferable to this. At times the playing is interminable. “Hey High School Baby” contains some of the most ramshackle lead lines that buttress up against vocals that are equally as atonal and off putting. One of the worst offenders is the cover of “Brazil”. Just dreadful. If I had made this atonal, discordant a record I would hide all the boxes of them in the attic and try to forget that weekend like it was part of my post-divorce abyss adventure.
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