SKAG HEAVEN

REISSUED ON VINYL!!! Back from the ranks of the deleted are these seminal punk recordings from mid-80s Louisville. At the time all the kids involved in this rock project were all just teens, with the oldest being no more than eighteen. Their furious post-hardcore style were first heard outside of town in early 1985, when the self-titled EP dropped on the notorious Dutch East India label. Like most punkers past and present, SQUIRREL BAIT had hard-rock aspirations, as represented by titles like Hammering So Hard and Sun God - and by the late summer of 1986, their carefully groomed arrangement of guitars, drums and bass were poofed out to sound even huger than huge on their swansong album Skag Heaven. Teenagers through and through, Squirrel Bait wrote songs in the negative, making an expression through the refusal of the rules they perceived in the songs around them. They shied away from angst and transparent confession in their lyrics, choosing to portray a hard-edged, decadent youth scene in fictive brush-strokes, without glorifying or even explaining what they were on about.