{"product_id":"blank-square-animal-i","title":"Blank Square: Animal I - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAnimal I\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eBlank Square\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eCastleface\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e814867022644\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eRock\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2017-02-24\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         2017 release. When squirming black mold in a dingy Bayshore, CA, warehouse became sentient, creaked and took humanoid form it created Blank Square and their singularly odd-punk debut, Animal I - sounding like the weirder end of Flesheaters but with a sterility that can only be contemporarily compared to Total Control's Aussie hardcore no-wave and then with a pinch of what made DNA and Mars amazing. This album is captured with plenty of concrete and sheet metal kept in the mix and a highlight towards dissonant syncopations, as if it was recorded in a empty room minus one chair and definitely down a flight of wet, cement stairs. Featuring saxophone with a mild but nauseating-at-times rippling slap delay, the band cruises on a rhythm section that sounds like they've got another house show to play tonight after this one. Rectangular in all the right places, it's uncomfortable, like sleeping in a car. For listeners who love art in their sax punk, reaching way back into California's punk history (SST would've undoubtedly dug this). There you go, weirdos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 One Way \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Bangers \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Empty My Head \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Fuc'd \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Bad Acid \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Quark \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Put a Lid on It \u003cbr\u003e1.8 I Was High \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Charmer \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Exit Saint \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Tape Measure \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Youth Trash\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blank Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32416347226183,"sku":"31862622","price":15.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3518406.jpg?v=1747779866","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/blank-square-animal-i","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}