Three One G Records will soon drop Release The Bats, a tribute album for proto-goth doomsayers the Birthday Party featuring bands such as Chinese Stars, Get Hustle, Some Girls, Numbers, Melt Banana, Rah Bras and Ex Models. Label co-owner (and Locust frontperson, incidentally) Justin Pierson said that the release would be out by late December or early January, just in time to clear away (or more likely bring on) the winter blues. While there ain't no party like the Birthday Party, the Party did stop in 1984. The Australian band formed in the mid-seventies, then moved to London where they produced a handful of darkly rhythmic albums before creative differences, and less-creative drug problems, caused the group to collapse. Two of the band's members, namely, Nick Cave and a Bad Seed, went on to form Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Tracklist For Release The Bats: 01. The Friend Catcher - Das Oath 02. Deep In The Woods - T Cells 03. Sonny's Burning - Cattle Decapitation 04. Blundertown - Year Future 05. Nick The Stripper - Ssion 06. Mutiny In Heaven - Ex Models 07. Riddle House - Les Georges Leningrad 08. Mr. Clarinet - Rah Bras 09. Faint Heart - Melt Banana 10. The Plague - Chinese Stars 11. King Ink - The Celebration 12. Junkyard - Kill Me Tomorrow 13. A Dead Song - Get Hustle 14. Cry - Numbers 15. Wild World - Error 16. Marry Me (Lie Lie) - Daughters 17. Release The Bats - Some Girls www.threeoneg.com
