Finish alt punk jazz rockers from CAN CAN HEADSย have launched a stream of their 2014 recordย , Butter Life that was originally released on LP by Karkia Mistika Records/Verdura Records/Bottom of the Pops and now re-released in the form of a small cassette edition of 100 copies. You can stream it in its entirety below. It’s exciting, committed,ย unpredictable and insanely enjoyable!ย Nothingย gets more avant garde, experimental and artfulย than this vigorous release this year. Enjoy!
Can Can Heads is a nest of contradictions, twists and surprises. Itโs violent music with a gentle heart. The bandโs front man doesnโt sing. Or play an instrument. He occupies the space on stage where a lead singer usually resides. And gyrates. Generally, the bass is as close as the band gets to a lead instrument. The music is convulsive and jerky, but manages to reach a hypnotic state. Itโs like tribal music made by a quintet consisting of misfits and contrarians. Hailing from a barn in the flood-prone flatlands of Bothnia in western Finland, Can Can Heads has been kicking against the pricks for over two decades. Theyโve managed to avoid all contact with the roaming searchlights of media attention by skulking from one margin to another: punk, no wave, free jazz, noise. All this goes into a blender and out comes something the band itself tends to call โRamones meets Albert Aylerโ. Others might call it skronk. Butter Life is not smooth and itโs not creamy. It sizzles and scrapes, raking its lo-fi nails from your scapula down to the small of your back. (Arttu Tolonen)
