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Bermuda Triangles
Album titile: Reptilian Intervention lp
C.N.P. Records, 2010

Is Richmond, VA still a dirt-cheap place to live? I haven't been around there in about seven years, but this Bermuda Triangles record came from there, and I'm hoping it's evidence of the sort of well-kept secrets a mid-sized town can have in its paths of musical expression. Compared to what little overall worth is shaking out of cities where one's overhead overshadows the ability to really open things up, Reptilian Intervention is a fuckin' trip and a half. The brainchild of Jason Hodges (better known for his '90s powerviolence band, Suppression), this band pushes a heavy, tribal rhythmic agenda, the band weaves in a thick paste of delayed guitars, timbales, electronic blitter and a conspiracy-baked mindset (hear the refrain of the title track: "Rockefeller, Bush, Windsor/Rothschild and Kissinger/Blood-thirsty reptiles/From the same bloodline"). There's even a sax on some of the tracks, which pushes their entire presentation really close to Houston's dark rock trio Balaclavas. But where that band relishes in striking riffs and sentiments that detonate under a glamorous dusk, Bermuda Triangles runs in the paranoid prog-punk runoff of Nomeansno. Limited to 100 copies, in eye-searing silkscreened sleeves and with a CD copy.

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Flora Wiegmann