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Longmont Potion Castle: 10 (D.U. Records, 2013)

November 10, 2013 at 11:44 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Returning to digital-only after the first-ever full-length LPC vinyl release, here’s another album of lambs, deadpan taunting, preposterous UPS deliveries, 3-way phone mayhem, and thrash metal, via Skype. Most relevant to my location, Mr. LPC poses as someone from DTE and calls people telling them he’s going to turn their heat up to 110 degrees for testing. He starts off calling a candy store, who says that this will melt all their product. Then he calls a bunch of other people telling them to same thing, and they get belligerent, so he claims to be charging them for non-compliance. At one point he interjects “do you even know there’s a new pope?” “Liquor Outlet” finds him doing his classic vocal manipulation and playing with words, and confusing the hell out of someone at some store. “Interloper’s Probation” is the saga of a disturbed, cranky, racist old man who lives in a motel. Elsewhere, he adds synths and drum machines to his calls, resulting in a hilarious “What You Peepin’?” song for about 10 seconds, which gets met with a “what are you saying?” and a hangup. He asks a liquor store for 100 limes, and claims to be from Yelp.com and offers to change someone’s negative feedback into positive for $800. Oh, and there’s the one where he calls a record store asking for Turtle Pleasure and Solomon Gumball. “I’m at the KFC just catty-corner to ya.” He calls people claiming to be their neighbor, and tells them to quiet down, and the first person seems to actually comply with him. There’s also a disturbed, violent-minded man who really hates the president, and a montage of phone greetings, and (as a bonus track) the crazy living in a motel talking to Alex Trebek. Maybe a bit too much 3-way calls this time (they mostly just end up being several minutes of “hello?” “hello?” “no, you called me” “oh this must be a mistake” “ok bye” and not much more), but still, if you love LPC, you need this, obviously. Someone uploaded it to Youtube somewhere but you can buy the mp3s here.