godz 2

2nd album by New York-based avant garde rock group. Dissonant incompetent psychedelic noise/junk here with wailing unmelodic vocals, weird solos and different background noises. Part of the Lower East Side scene that produced post-Beat avant-hippie rockers/performance artists the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders, as well as honest-to-God beat performers like Allen Ginsberg. They recorded the most extreme music while being secretive about themselves... as the late critic Lester Bangs noted, the Godz "are a pure test of one of the supreme traditions of rock & roll: the process by which a musical band can evolve from beginnings of almost insulting illiteracy to wind up several albums later romping and stomping deft as champs..." (All Music Guide). Also available on LP (GET 1017).