Claude VonStroke: "Monster Island"

The opening track to Claude VonStroke's new full-length, Bird Brain, kicks off with some pounding drums and menacing horns floating around the mix, as if calling to awake a monster. And, in fact, this one's title is "Monster Island" (hopefully a reference to Toho classic Destroy All Monsters and not the awful TV-movie starring Carmen Electra), a spooky track that finally hooks into a steady beat a minute in and riding a wave of pounding drums, shakers, and synth whirs over a horn blast that fade...

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