The Great Ereat Doddodo
Untitled
(Self-release 2003)
Format: CDR
Designer: Uncredited
It doesnt get much more hand-made than this. The front is made from a piece of silver wrapping paper printed with solid stripes in that eighties favourite, dusty pink. A seriously distressed octopus/intestine creature is rendered in crenellated black lines. This is printed on a clear sticker thats stuck to the pink-striped paper. Another sticker features the title in heavy Helvetica. The back cover is a blank piece of blue tissue paper. This is then stapled together all the way round, so you have to rip it to get to the CD. Not just any old staples, but metallic green, magenta, yellow and blue ones. The CDR has another clear sticker on it with another illustrated character in jagged lines, this time clenching its fist and yelling. Inside is a bright orange piece of paper, hand-cut into curves. On it, in black, the artist name in the same type as the cover and a hand-drawn illustration of a figure holding a microphone whose head is an explosion of viscera, and whose back has a large hole exposing its innards. The track numbers and times are scattered in various sizes of heavy Helvetica/Ariel. On the back are the contact details and a series of joined cartoon figures, wailing and tumbling their way across the paper. A unique aesthetic, somehow very now, and as eccentric as the music on it.
Alex Crowfoot |
