CRAPPY DRACULA

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DISCO-GRAPH:
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S/T 7" (EFF001)
OUT TO SEA CD EP (EFF002)
SPLIT 7" 45PRM w/ SONOURUS GALE (EFF003)
"PLAYS FOR THE TROOPS" TOUR CASSETTE (EFF004) (OUT OF PRINT!)
SPLIT EP 7" | WHITE WOMEN EP | w/ FARMS IN TROUBLE (EFF005 / ACT007)
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OUT SOME TIME THIS FALL...
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00FF00* "ALMOST" the 12" 45RPM LP / CD (10-12 songs)
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"I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR" 7" COMP 3 (UFO DICTATOR)
w/
CAPTAIN 9'S & The KNICKERBOCKER TRIO (Williamsport, PA)
WILD THING (San Francisco, CA)
(+1 or 2 MORE...)
7" 45RPM LACQUER (TBD)
"THE LOCKHORNS" CONCEPT CASSETTE (RT08)
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And in the "We couldn't have said it better" category "Crappy Dracula had just started as I arrived, and it was shockingly my first time seeing the Milwaukee scene mainstays. Before I say anything else about their performance, let me say this: Crappy Dracula are fucking funny. This applies to nearly every aspect of their performance. They even wrote out their own setlist from right to left, as to make it unreadable. This attention to detail is apparent in the songs they write: well-crafted punky nuggets about buying things, work, and other stuff that you or I don’t think to write songs about. They also dropped a cover of Flipper’s “Ha Ha Ha”, which seems appropriate, as Crappy Dracula is also a punk band who’d rather be clever than visceral. Music doesn’t have to be some sort of emotional ham-handed release, and Crappy Dracula proves it’s usually better when it isn’t."
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Hey Dale! Say somthing about the new 7" Split EP:
If band's like Tyvek are the bright & clever head of the class students in the modern of school of Wire Pink Flag teachings Milwaukee Wisconsin's Crappy Dracula are the freshmen who are always getting swirlies and being thrown head first into lockers. A barrage of bright & brittle Telecaster bursts, burping bass lines and marching band drums going way off the route of the parade snaps & bangs crash together in overmodulated 4 track glory. Many moments of angular goofing that culminates in what has to be accidental brilliance on their side's 2nd song "Application" (sandwiched between the nerd punk conniption fit of "Hospital Waste Management Facility Party Tonight" and a faithfully battered take on Guided By Voices "A Good Flying Bird") where it's a Pabst drunk Red Crayola before they changed the spelling of their name. Interestingly the band spells their name The Krappy Drakula on this record. I've been assured that it's just in coincidental and I shouldn't put so much thinking into trying to figure out if their are any cryptic messages/secret motives that the band may have because it's giving them too much credit.
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Hey Chris! what do you say about the new 7" Split EP with Farm in trouble...
I've heard a couple of Crappy Dracula's past records, and I really wanted to like them, as aesthetically-speaking they were right up my alley, but the songs were just not that good. I know it sounds weird and maybe even a bit contradictory, but I only like this style of trashy pop when it's done "well" (I don't think I could ever quantify that statement - it's just one of those things that I know when I hear). Anyways, the band had also sent me a cd-r of a bunch of their songs, presented in reverse chronological order; the first several songs on that disc were easily their best, and this split single contains the first three of those songs. The band is sloppy, noisy and proudly lo-fi, and a lot of fun to boot (their cover of Guided By Voices' "A Good Flying Bird" should also give you an idea of where they're coming from). I really hope they continue writing songs this good! On the flip, we've got four songs from Farms In Trouble, who also come from Milwaukee and definitely fit in the same vein as Crappy Dracula (though considerably more warped). Two of their songs are rather good, while the other two are just a bit too out there for me ("Stick Man Bugs Out" really sounds like an early Eric Gaffney freak-out). A cool split single from two bands you likely have never heard of...
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