scarcity of tanks No Endowments (LP, £13.75)

Scarcity of Tanks is a band formed and totally negated in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. No endowments for defender. "Hello. We are Scarcity Of Tanks and we have arrived today to bring you a new type of music. We hope we aren't too late." - Jack Brewer. Wordsmith Matthew Wascovich leads this amorphous unit of avant-rockers in a noisy fusion of hardcore word choice and houserocking skronkitude. SST fans be warned! "This Cleveland combo has sounded a little random to my ears previously. But this effort, NO ENDOWMENTS, featuring Clevelanders Dave Cintron (Terminal Lovers, Downside Special), Ted Flynn (Theodore Vril), Andrew Klimek (X-Blank-X, Johnny & The Dicks, Death On A Stick, Ugly Beauty), Scott Pickering (Pufftube, Prisonshake, My Dad Is Dead, Spike In Vein, Happy Flowers), Nate Scheible (Self Destruct Button), Dan Wenninger (Oblique Orchestra) and Oakland, California's Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX, Lake OfDracula) is freeform skronk, but other parts are great rolling-CLE-word-spews in the Laughner/Kryss tradition, with instrumental moves jacked from Death of Samantha and Rocket From The Tombs, then updated like crazy. Crazy." - Byron Coley, Archivist. The group met and recorded tracks during 2007-2008 in Cleveland and Oakland. The album was mastered by Weasel Walter. The cover art is by Devendra Banhart.