Editorial Reviews "It’s Still Artastic" contains 10 new tracks & 2 new versions of classics. So, even if you already have It’s Artastic (1991) this is in fact an album worth purchasing. Tracks are culled from 1975 all the way through 1998— a wide & varied landscape of The Styrenes’ distinctive musical action. Including "Drano In Your Veins" (truly one of the best songs you’ll hear, and one of the most joyously violent songs of all time.), "Girl Crazy," "Jaguar Ride," "Radial Arm Saws," It’s Still Artastic could possibly be the quintessential Cleveland 70s anthem you need in your collection.
It's Still Artastic
Music Review:
Music Review
The Happy Dragon Band [Import]
Peer Gynt Suite/Holberg Suite/Piano Concerto
Party Doll and Other Favorites
Le Choro Contemporain 1978-1999
Greg Kot,Chicago Tribune
"psychedelia, theatricality, noise and garage rock with gleeful irreverence that recalled Syd Barrett & Captain Beefheart…rock like nobody’s business."
David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"a crucial missing link between Sixties punk grunge and Eighties avant-rock…"
Album Description
This is the genuine article— more convincing & more daring—playing host to modern day re-makes & copycats. Although The Hives (The Saints), Strokes (Velvet Underground) & White Stripes (too many to name) are loved for their retro-sound, and are quite good at it, they risk nothing. The Styrenes, on the other hand, experiment with almost every song. The result is indescribable, chaotic, often catchy, and always on-edge. Adventurous and exciting- punk/agro-jazz w/ a tinge of hostility that can only be described as genius. The music on It’s Still Artastic sounds just as idiosyncratic now as it did then, and just as prescient. The rest of the world has yet to catch up. The Cleveland landscape is coming under the microscope again; Pere Ubu, The Electric Eels, & Amoeba (raft boy) (feat. members of the Styrenes) all recently released new albums, Rocket From The Tombs’ newest re-issue is selling very well, and Cheetah Chrome is packing the house in Nashville. The time is ripe.