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\"Damaged<\/a>Hubba Bubba<\/i>\u2019s album cover emulates the artwork of the Silver Apples\u2019 protopunk saucer, Contact<\/i>, like some wicked d\u00e8j\u00e1 vu shit. Much like the 1969 original, this updated rendering features a bird\u2019s eye view of the world seen from the interior of a space shuttle cockpit, albeit with a framed portrait of Brian Eno and pot leaf air freshener situated in amongst a blob of chromatic gadgetry and illuminated screens. While the visual connection between the two album covers is immediately apparent, the similarities between the Apples and Damaged Bug go well beyond a mutual appreciation for intergalactic wanderlust. The glazed synth walls and rusty guitar strums that usher in\u00a0Hubba Bubba<\/i>\u2019s first few moments during \u201cGloves for Garbage\u201d suggest that John Dwyer is in a different headspace creatively since announcing Thee Oh Sees were hitting indefinite Splitsville late last year. Dwyer appears to be in loner mode on the album, a phlegmatic freak tucked away in a tiny hole of the universe where few choose to graze. With Damaged Bug, Dwyer, who recently relocated to Los Angeles, has adopted a new persona that ditches the foaming-mad psychosis of any of his prior engagements for something a tad woozier and alienated. You can sense the apathy in his voice during \u201cRope Burn\u201d when he proposes to \u201cstick a spike in your vein\u201d over a flutter of spiraling keys and sputtering drum machines. The song revels more in the raga sensuality of the Apples, the bleated post-punk of The Instant Automatons, and the ice-cold clang of the A Frames than it does something analogous to Dwyer\u2019s heartthrob Billy Childish.<\/p>\n

Considering this is Dwyer\u2019s most recent experiment outside the realm of performing within a band setting, it\u2019s fitting that Hubba Bubba <\/i>appears to take comfort in its own detachment from society. There\u2019s a primitive element to the record that feels simple in its presentation and urgent with Dwyer\u2019s accessibility to the nearest tape recorder. Rather than having a group of warm bodies at his disposal, Dwyer\u2019s mad creation instead focuses on whatever instrumentation he readily has available at his fingertips. Songs such as \u201cPhotograph\u201d and \u201cMetal Hand\u201d lurk over piles of handcrafted junk electronics and corner store synthesizers that sound treated by Eno himself. There\u2019s a floppy languidness to both tunes that feels artificial in its fabrication, yet Dwyer manages to translate any sense of indifference into something that feels instantly seductive. The same goes for \u201cWasteland,\u201d which detonates in a fuss of bleeping synths and scampering drums for a good minute before Dwyer questions in his deadpan delivery whether he \u201cis just a waste of life.\u201d Its jammed-out veneer and motorik pulse sounds like a Can throwaway from the vault but rewired by Dwyer into a sonic casserole of retro-punk. While it\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess what sort of life Damaged Bug will take on in the immediate future, it\u2019s revitalizing when one remembers the humble beginnings of Thee Oh Sees, which morphed from Dwyer\u2019s solo bedroom project to a fully-fledged group that killed it one album after the next over a span of 15 or so years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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