Renaldo & The Loaf (Ralph Records)– Songs For Swinging Larvae LP

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Renaldo & The Loaf  (Ralph Records)– Songs For Swinging Larvae LP

Label: Ralph Records – RL 8108

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album

Country: US

Released: 1981

Genre: Electronic

Style: Experimental

Tracklist

A1                   Lime Jelly Grass          2:31    

A2                   A Medical Man           1:16    

A3                   Bali Whine      2:28    

A4                   Kimbolton Gnome Song

    Bass – Ted The Loaf

            3:19    

A5                   Frass    1:42    

A6                   N2O (Going Under)   1:42    

A7                   B.P.M.             2:32    

A8                   Spratts Medium          1:17    

A9                   Honest Joe's Indian Gets The Goat On The Way To The Cowboys' Conga 3:32    

B1                   Ow! Stew The Red Shoe

    Percussion [Additional] – Ted The Loaf

            3:24    

B2                   Bustle The Burgoo      2:33    

B3                   Is Guava A Donut?     4:19    

B4                   A Sob Story

    Loops – Renaldo M.*

            3:24    

B5                   Hats Off Gentlemen! 3:31    

B6                   Renaldo's Trip To Venice       0:32    

B7                   Ted's Reverie 2:01    

Credits

    Artwork By [Cover Art] – Gary Panter

    Guitar, Clarinet, Loops, Performer [Scalpel Wielding, Hacksaw Blade], Guitar [Prepared] – Ted The Loaf

    Guitar, Mandolin, Bouzouki, Drums [Flocdrum], Glockenspiel, Percussion [Bamboo, Diverse Percussives], Voice – Renaldo M.*

    Written-by, Producer, Artwork By [Cover Concept] – Renaldo & The Loaf

Notes

Recorded at Odd Times at Sneff's Surgery between Nov. 79 and Nov. 80

Mixed at Elephant Studios, London, Nov. 80

All Transformations realized without the use of synthesizers or juvenile hormone

Runout groove etching on side B: "The.... End"

A Rotcod Production 1980

(C)(P) 1981 The Cryptic Foundation

Manufactured by Ralph Records

Album surface: VG+

Album artwork: VG+

Review

by Ted Mills

Of all the groups that the Residents signed to their Ralph records label, English duo Renaldo and the Loaf were the most slavish copyists of their label heads. Twisted high-pitched vocals, childish melodies, a general air of menace and unease, with a primitive approach to instruments: For those new to both bands you could see how the two could be mistaken for the other. Songs for Swinging Larvae, their debut album, features 16 short tracks of grating, nonsensical songs, with lyrics that sound good but mean little. The duo forces instrumentation through effect boxes, working with tape loops and cut-ups to grab any interesting sound they can. And while much of it comes off half-baked (many of the tracks fall apart on examination, their only raison d'etre being a weirdness one-upmanship), there are some pieces here that you'd want to hear more than once: the gamelan and sax throb of "Bali Whine," the threatening crescendo of "BPM," and the dark bubble of a tape loop that spools through "Spratt's Medium." Music guaranteed to rid your house of unwanted guests.

Renaldo & The Loaf

Profile:

Renaldo Malpractice (Brian Poole) and Ted the Loaf (David Janssen) are a bizarre, insanely creative duo of Brits hailing from Portsmouth. Their music is wacky and fun, schizophrenic and unexpected. "Discovered" by the Residents after they released a cassette version of their first recording, they were signed to Ralph Records and produced 3 albums between 1981 and 1987.

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