PREORDER: Billiam – Animation Cell [IMPORT GREEN NOISE EXCLUSIVE ORANGE VINYL AUSSIE PUNK] – New LP

PREORDER: Billiam – Animation Cell LP.  IMPORT.

GREEN NOISE EXCLUSIVE ORANGE VINYL.

   LIMITED: 100 copies.

Shipping August 9, 2024.

While we've always tried to get a box of every release from the unstoppable Legless Records, both increased prices for pressing records in Australia and increased shipping costs from Australia was about to chuck a wrench in these plans.  Fortunately, we put our heads together...and this Billiam LP introduces are new partnership with Legless and Green Noise where the records will still be pressed in Australia, but Green Noise will now offer 100 copies of most Legless releases!  We are so hyped to launch this new partnership with this album from Billiam!

Automatic hydraulic stamp-press Australian garage synth punk, this second album continuing the spring-loaded paranoia and serious fun you've come to expect from this neurodivergent genious, and wrenching it up in every department, the sounds, the songs, and the punch, great from the get go, as soon as they yank open the curtain and pull the lever, snapping it back home, the long-player featuring many of my favorite Billiam cuts, Side One opening with a cattle prod to those bolts on your Frankenstein neck, ending the side with the 1-2-3 punch of "Bash My Head..."  the catchy "My Metronome" and "Segaworld," launching back into it with the second side, continuing with a mix of crazy and catchy, the blue flag wagging, the Billiam jalopy moving into position, bouncing, rolling and rocking down the torn up blacktop on a Roger Rabbit-style half animated movie action-packed with massive cartoon mallets smashing talking heads, dump-trucks and mario carts, thunder booming, lightning crackling and electric lines buzzing in the orange skies overhead...while synth punk has been going since the beginning (and maybe Billiam's "Hit the Brakes" on this album offers a nod to the importance of 1966's "Talk Talk" from the one-glove wonders of Los Angeles), Billiam has his own thing going...going off the cliff and into your ear holes, dropping on your skull like a 2-ton cartoon Acme anvil, and I can only weave my fingers into a two-handed fist and hope he keeps the plastic pedal to the metal and keeps this crazy jalopy going down this path until the end of time.  -- winch