LIFE IS TRASH

SUPERAUTHORITY

Track Listing

  1. 29 Maple Ave
  2. Frankenstein Controls
  3. Tractor Beam From The Heart
  4. Ditch Party
  5. Magnetic Repulsion
  6. Deathman Does Exist
  7. In A Dark Dark Cave
  8. Sacrifice For Nothing
  9. Slaughter Of The Worthy
  10. Excoriated
  11. Dearth Of Anything Resembling Joy

Released 1990

Superauthority – “Frankenstein Controls” (1990)

Founder of the “Wantagh Bootgaze” branch of early 90’s acid-wave, Superauthority’s Brandt Tabin credits much of his sound to the dark peculiarities of his early life. Orphaned as an infant, Brandt was begrudgingly taken in by his grandfather-cum-amateur inventor Dr. Maximillian Tabin, to live in his decaying house-laboratory in Hempstead, NY. Brandt peeked through doorways as the elder Tabin, descending into paranoid madness, researched and developed far-fetched but extremely lethal weaponry including “remote-activated deadly-to-the-touch tarantula spiders,” a supposed “brain-thoughts broadcasting radio implant” and the poisoned “Tabin Needle.”

Exposed to the world by the investigative journalism of a former experiment subject, Tabin was arrested and his inventions destroyed, hastening his mental deterioration and leading to his eventual suicide – which Brandt not only witnessed but unknowingly took part in and famously dramatized in his 1994 experimental film/album You Have Never Seen This Much Blood.

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