Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit
USA

Ex Stinger EP (2008)


Ex Stinger EP

rrr009/7th April 2008
6 tracks/19:34 length/19.8Mb

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An F in Health (2004-2008)

An F in Health
rrr050/7th June 2008
12 tracks/27:27 length/24.8Mb

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Grapefruit Gun (2008)

Grapefruit Gun
rrr094/26th November 2008
2 tracks/8:08 length/19.1Mb

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100 (2008)

V/A - 100
rrr100/20th December 2008
16 tracks/60:53 length/75.9Mb

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Biography
TASRU is the brainchild of 19 year old Thomas O'Neill Grathwol. I don't know much else. Just listen and enjoy. Jellyfish are marine invertebrates belonging to the Scyphozoan class, and in turn the phylum Cnidaria. The body of an adult jellyfish is composed of a bell-shaped, jellylike substance enclosing its internal structure, from which the creature's tentacles suspend. Each tentacle is covered with stinging cells (cnidocytes) that can sting or kill other animals: most jellyfish use them to secure prey or as a defense mechanism. Others, such as Rhizostomae, do not have tentacles at all. To compensate for its lack of basic sensory organs and a brain, the jellyfish exploits its nervous system and rhopalia to perceive stimuli, such as light or odor, and orchestrate expedient responses. In its adult form, it is composed of 94-98% water and can be found in every pelagic area of the world.
Reviews

Thomas O’Neill Grathwol is a 20 year-old Minnesota resident with some seriously warped ideas on music. Presumably recorded from his bedroom or some very basic recording studio, Grathwol is perfect if you like your music with a DIY ethic matched by bags of imagination.
Drums sound like saucepans, there are samples of obscure film dialogue whilst Grathwol regularly seems to be cracking up when he’s singing in that deranged freakfolk voice of his. Some moments of clarity do stand out though. ‘Giants Of ‘93′ features that rarest of things, an addictive ukelele melody. The blissed-out folk for ‘The Father Of Foul Smells’ and dreamy synths for ‘Goodwill’ are further highlights. However, novelty ditties such as hip-hop with flu track ‘I Gotta Cold’ (key line: “I gotta blow my nose”) are only funny the first time.
‘An F In Health’ belongs in the same institution as early Baby Bird or Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti for sheer invention and lunacy. As you can imagine, the flow of the record is quite haphazard but there are rewards along the way and - since the EP is free to download anyway - there’s no risk involved.

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