Dark Entries picks up Severed Heads yet again for Ear Bitten, a double LP reissue of some of the band's earliest material. Pegged as early pushers of the Australian underground industrial scene, Severed Heads emerged in the wake of a former project also shared between three members, Tom Ellard, Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright: Mr. And Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The edgier name Severed Heads was also, conveniently, snappier, and the sonic result of this resignal act would soon prove it a good decision. Though they say they aimed simply to take after forebears like Throbbing Gristle or Suicide, Ear Bitten proves much more than the simple fact of stylogeny. The 22-track record was born of an anarchic assemblage of found domestic and street-larked objects (as well as specialist musical instruments) blurring the lines between the two: using every sound-making tool from cassette deck, to rare Korg or Kawai synth, to proverbial pots and pans, to open-reel (and thus implicatively fuckable-with) dictaphones, Ear Bitten offers a diabolical vision of the sheer, wordless length of the post-punk deserts parched by their 70s, New York precursors.
TRACK LISTING
1. "All Rights Resevered"
2. "God Factory"
3. "Hawaii/Torso/97 Cigarettes"
4. "Acid Fur"
5. "Dance"
6. "New York Is A Lonely Town"
7. "(This Track Doesn't Exist)"
8. "Much About Bones"
9. "Scat"
10. "Pander To The Natives"
11. "For Garry 5"
12. "The Monkey Is Safe"
13. "1-2-3 A Baby Buggy"
14. "Walking Best Friend"
15. "Untitled 1"
16. "Untitled 2"
17. "Now This Is God's Son 1"
18. "Acid Fur" (demo)
19. "Now This Is God's Son 2"
20. "Hello Donald, Merry Christmas"
21. "Pinstripe Bus"
22. "The Man Of My Dreams"