Released
1997
Label
Kloün Records
Reviewed by
Kim Alexander
Contact
Crash Course
P.O. Box 677
Reading MA 01867
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Last Edit/Update
02 May, 1998
Crash Course
Yak
Track Listing
1. Take A Fit
2. Earwig
3. Guy In The Sky
4. God's Fault
5. I Want A Gun Pt. I
6. Inerrmission
7. I Want A Gun Pt. II
8. You
9. The Boot
10. Get Worse Soon
11. Your Name
12. Special ED
13. Bad Day
14. Bomb Scare
"The song You included Steve and Al on guitar. This is the only use of guitars
by Crash Course. All songs on this release were recorded at Toxic Audio
in Boston, MA and produced by Dave C. Fredericks. Although this was a cassette only
release, six CD’s were pressed for radio air play. Cassettes were distributed to
local record stores. "Trim The Tree" received modest air play on college radio.
Throughout 1996 and 1997 work
continued on the full length CD YAK!. The YAK! CD featured re-worked
versions of previously released Crash Course songs. The CD contains 14
tracks with hidden tracks tacked onto the end of some songs."
--Crash
Course Site Data
Track one is pure EBMish electro,
excellent music -- some guy screaming in the background he's going to Take a fit --
the sounds generated remind me of EN and Coil
synth-noise with a 2/4 beat that won't let up...Earwig is basically Crash
Course vocals about having an earwig in his ear and it crawling into his head,
playing his eardrum and pinching his brain.
"That's it...scream and shout,
rant and rave...", of Guy In The Sky blends more EMB beat with a dark drone of
harmonic sampling in the background and vocals that continue to tell about the
omnipresent guy in the sky then goes with minimal sampling and an older man just going on
and on about how he needs you and he needs himself and you need him too. Then Crash
Course heads into laying some blame with God's Fault it's just too
funny...starting out with a 50s TV jingle, the lyrics are great -- a guy bitching about
problems and issues surrounding life for us, "Why you can't shit outside? It's all
GOD's Fault!", layered over a brooding ominous piano and rumbling drone.
I Want A Gun is great,
lyrics: "You screwed me....TOO many times...now,...you're gonna PAY, I WANT A GUN,
gonna make you RUN...I want a GUN. I'll teach you. To mess with ME! You better move, when
I count to THREE!" The music on this track is so good, grinding heavy electro,
machine-gun like drumming, intense programming. Intermission is another little
jingle from some sappy TV commercial which moves directly into I Want A Gun Pt II,
more on the techno-disco end of the spectrum and continues with the sick demented shit
about killing someone with a gun, gunshots and fast paced electro. "I want a
GUNNNnnnn.....I wanna HURT someone, I wanna see them RUNNNNnnnnnnn!" PoP!
Crash Course is
basically a very talented duo relative to creating music. They are raving on a satyrical
road of industrial-noise music, and headed for a collision with all the bitches and grips
people have had about a good deal of issues and problems in their lives like; blaming god
(or someone else) for everything, ...wanting or feeling so angry you just want to go blow
someones head off...and getting the "boot" for some reason or another. It
reminds me of Throbbing Gristle what with the vocals screaming out the
social atrocities that have and do occur in ones life. Good release. If you like Joy
Division or Gristle, order YAK!
