Though its recorded output to date has been sparse, noise slash psych-rock two-piece Seizure Salad has made an asteroid-sized impact due to the strength of its live show. Back in 2009, the duo of Andrew Hume and Britt Proulx — previous members of such projects as The Incandescence, Jane Vain and the Dark Matter, Extra Happy Ghost and Space Rabies — shared a killer split with Braids’ side-project Indiensoci. Released on cassette through the band’s own Ice Cream Ala Mode imprint, it was dubiously dubbed The New The Good The Bad and The Ugly Sound Track, and it offered an entry point into the band’s truly unique sonic universe.
This month, Hume and Proulx finally dropped the followup: the wild and woolly 90-minute tape Blank to the Bank, credited to Seizure Salad & The Bacedas. According to its typewritten liner notes, its content includes “Tape 1 outtakes, remixes, radio dubs, free jazz’s and Amazing Drone Smash Hits.” According to this reviewer’s ears, it includes all of the above, plus warbly seasick soundscapes, shambling acoustic numbers, blistering burners, spaghetti western interludes and warped samples of everything from the Mutators, to Techno-Tronic’s “Pump Up The Jam,” to hypnotist M. Vance Romane. There’s a cameo from Indiensoci, a song called “Really into Slurpees” and another called “Snoop Dogg’s Dogg.” According to Proulx, “prepare yourself for a really fuckin’ weird 90 minutes of music.”
Up next, Seizure Salad will grace interested parties with a re-dub of the Indiensoci split, an all-new “garage rock” tape (exactly what that means is yet to be discovered) and a higher-fi studio album recorded with fellow local music madman Ryan Sadler.


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