March 22 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of "Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac". It's the band's first full-length studio album, and the first to feature the playing of second drummer Teresa Nervosa, hired shortly after the release of their self-titled EP. The album shows the band taking a more radical psychedelic shift in style from their earlier surreal punk sound. The Surfers make heavy use of tape editing and unusual instrumentation to create a bewildering, almost nightmarish atmosphere prevalent throughout the album. This album has since been highly lauded by critics, who consider it one of the Butthole Surfers' best efforts.
March 22 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of "Rembrandt Pussyhorse", the band's second full-length studio album. Originally released in April 1986 on Touch And Go, the 13-track album is arguably the most experimental release in Butthole Surfers' considerably experimental catalog. Making heavy use of in-studio tape editing and sound modulation, the album adds piano, organ, and violin, among other sounds, to their then-usual battery of electric guitar, bass, and dual drummers. "Rembrandt Pussyhorse" is America viewed through a kaleidoscope of Woodstock's brown acid.
September 20 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of their third full-length studio album,"Locust Abortion Technician". Originally released in 1987 via Touch and Go, the 12-track album saw the band's transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground. From the opening track, "Sweat Loaf", which quotes Black Sabbath with results both hilarious and bowel-stomping, to the scuzz-guitar riven "found" vocals of "22 Going on 23", the record is a non-stop face-full of hallucinogenic gas. Maniacal sludge guitar figures and Gibbytronix vocals are smeared everywhere, with most excellent results. For many folks, "Locust Abortion Technician" represents the album with which the Buttholes fully fulfilled their insane potential.
September 20 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of their fourth full-length studio album, "Hairway To Steven". Originally released in 1988 on Touch and Go, the 8-track record is a blast, ranging from the blood-smeared guitar-overload of "Jimi" to the acoustic guitar-based sing-along sweetness of "I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas", to the Fugs-like ranting of "John E. Smokes". Yet somehow, the album managed to get the straight media to actually notice. For all its strangeness, "Hairway To Steven" got rave notices in places that had never paid the band any attention previously. It was the Buttholes' last album of the 80s and marks the beginning of their ascendance into something akin to commercial success, not that the band actually imagined anything at all like that occurring.
September 20 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of their 1985 EP, "Cream Corn From the Socket of Davis". The title makes about as much sense as anything in the Surfers' universe, so hey, why complain?. The EP plucked two tunes from ‘Rembrandt Pussyhorse’ and added a couple of new ones that had been recorded on their home studio 8-track in Winterville, Georgia. "Moving To Florida" (the best example ever of what Beefheart probably sounded like while he was tripping) and the other three tracks blew peoples' minds by being so precise, and fully messed-up at the same time. "Cream Corn" was a perfect bite-sized taster for what would follow.
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