Description
Bush Tetras have made punk music at the fringes for over four decades. Flashes of reggae, bursts of noise, guitars that rattle, shake and snake, born out of a gutter behind CBGBs. Over the years they have respawned time and time again, contorting their sound, tweaking the vision, remaining singular and indispensable.
In the late 2010s the group Pat Place, Cynthia Sley and Dee Pop reformed again, releasing an EP, Take the Fall, in 2018. It was their first offering of new music in over a decade. A few years later, in 2021, they released a career spanning box set called Rhythm and Paranoia. The New York Times called the box set an artifact that proves for decades [that Bush Tetras] continued to evolve in surprising yet intuitive directions. Around the same time, the band began working on a full length record, writing sessions during the pandemic over Zoom. Right before the release of the box set, beloved drummer Dee Pop passed away. Determined to complete the record to honour his memory, the Tetras went into the studio to finish what theyd started, once the timing was right. They brought in a new drummer, Sonic Youths Steve Shelley, who also served as producer. Enter They Live in My Head.
The bands third official LP (a misleading fact when viewed alongside a catalogue as expansive as it is influential), They Live in My Head is a collection of songs that sometimes reflect on the past and sometimes reckon with our current reality. From Ghosts of People, on which Pat Places legendary guitar meanders through closed doors and portals, to the scorching 2020 Vision, a matter-of-fact call to arms to get on the streets and get something done, the album addresses new and old, in both abstract and specific terms. But whether theyre looking forward or backward, Bush Tetras have always been a political band, a band that calls out all kinds of bullshit. And, in that sense, They Live in My Head is absolutely no exception.
LP available on red or black vinyl.
The Bush Tetras were remarkably influential without ever really receiving their due The New Yorker
Bush Tetras are, without a doubt, one of the greatest rock-and-roll groups born and bred in New York City. Thurston Moore
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