Bügsküll - Maggot ♥'s Pretty Boy

Taken from "Crock: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
Pop Secret - POP1 (US, 1995)

"The Bugskull project was started in 1992 by Sean Byrne in Portland, and was originally meant to be a private endeavour in the realm of avantgarde folk-rock. Two tapes were released for the Shimper and Eldest Son labels. A few years later Byrne was leading a trio, also called Bugskull, which included multi-instrumentist Brandan Bell and percussionist James Yu. In the meantime, Byrne had made a reputation as a surreal and dark songwriter with a fistful of increasingly popular singles.

Crock: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the second studio album by Bügsküll, released in 1995 by Pop Secret. This soundtrack in seven movements, represents a pantagruelic summa of psychedelic, ambient and progressive music. The pieces are entirely played on electronic machines and on guitar (itself deeply manipulated). The rhythmic attack of Storm The Fort, between Neu and Morton Subotnick, coesists with the intense quiet of Pretty Boy's Tent, the jazz fusion innuendos of The Lost Patrol Relax In The Sun coexist with the ghostly carillon of The Lost Patrol Return Home."