MISHAP by LOZENGE

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HOUSTON & CHICAGO FOOD BANKS

***MISHAP, LOZENGE's third album, is sonically raw, and decidedly unhinged, and therefore as faithful an audio analogue of the gleefully harrowing experience of our live performances, as best we can remember them through the haze of decades, as we can imagine having been captured. We recommend starting with UNDONE and/or DOOZY; otherwise, by all means, jump on in, the water's scalding.***

LOZENGE formed in Houston, TX in 1993, re-formed in Chicago, IL in 1996, and remained active in shuddering fits and starts through 2005.

The constant core membership:
- Kyle Bruckmann (electric accordion, minimoog, oboe, vocals)
- Kurt Johnson (electric bass)
- Philip Montoro (scrap metal percussion)
- Mark Stevens (drums & percussion)
...was once augmented by the now dearly departed John Robbins (electric viola, tenor saxophone) and, later, occasionally joined by the still very-much-alive Boris Hauf (tenor saxophone).

Over the course of four full albums and several clumsy lurches across the United States, LOZENGE carved out an idiosyncratic aesthetic of sensory over-stimulation, poly-/a-/hyper-rhythmic propulsion, labyrinthine black humor, and tooth-rattling timbral density. In performance, LOZENGE aspired to the transformative joy of extreme energy expenditure and collective self-immolation. Everything broke, every time. We considered this frightfully compelling aesthetically, not to mention "fun."

For a glorious minute there, we routinely shared bills in dank venues with many of the more notorious and/or obscure smartass anti-rock travesties of the Turn of the Century (our beloved comrades), a partial and alphabetized name-dropping of which must include: ARAB ON RADAR \ ATHLETIC AUTOMATON / CHEER-ACCIDENT \ BOBBY CONN / COUGHS \ DYN@MUTT / DEERHOOF \ DRIVE LIKE JEHU / THE EYESORES \ FAT DAY / FAT WORM OF ERROR \ FLYING LUTTENBACHERS / HELLA \ HERC. / LARVAL \ THE LOWDOWN / MACHINE GUN TV \ MADAME ESTRELLA / MY NAME IS RAR-RAR \ NAUTICAL ALMANAC / NIMROD \ SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM / SWEEP THE LEG JOHNNY \ TV POW / VIZA-NOIR \ WASTEOID / YAKUZA \ YBO2 / YOWIE

WHEREAS:

- the three labels which released our recordings are now utterly defunct
- it has come to our attention that MULTIPLE more recent bands have had the temerity to filch our name
- the misbegotten Streaming Era has not been kind to us (go ahead, try finding our music elsewhere online - the metadata is utterly FUBAR - see above re: "defunct labels" and "more recent bands")
- this, the Year of Our Common Era 2024, marks the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our first album and tour
- the hoary counterculture maxim "never trust anyone over 30" should surely apply, above all, to "punk" bands

LET IT BE HEREBY RESOLVED that we are taking matters into our own hands to resuscitate our discography here, as our own damn Deluxe Boxless Set.

LOZENGE formed in Houston in 1992, re-formed in Chicago in 1996, and remained active in shuddering fits and starts through 2005.

With an instrumentation of electric accordion, analog synthesizers, bass, and four-handed junkyard percussion, the music of LOZENGE flails in the perimeters of postpunk rock excess.

“...one of the most criminally underrated outfits in alt.rock”
Signal To Noise

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