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The Leaky Faces have developed a well-earned reputation as one of the most wicked punk bands in Albuquerque in a very short period of time. In fact, they weren’t even a folk punk band until recently, but it’s a direction for their madness that fits like the guise worn by a skinwalker on the side of the road caught briefly in the headlights. That is to say, The Leaky Faces are both haunting and visceral, and this first recorded effort from them shows how quickly they’ve taken to the black art of folk punk. The worst part of this EP is that it’s an EP and not a full-length. When the banjo and cajon come in hard on the chorus of the first track “Sand in My Teeth” you know you’re in for a hell of a listen. The recipe of psychedelic, groovy verses with explosive and unhinged choruses continues on with “Going to California”. “Zozobra” couldn’t have better timing in this 4-track EP. It’s perfectly placed in the track order because the second you get comfortable in the freaky trance The Leaky Faces have expertly inducted you into, they shatter it with the spitty, hate-seething, curse of a song that is “Zozobra”. The final track on this EP is “Instrumental” which seductively swaggers for most of its 4:29 run-time. Climaxing gracefully and then diminishing out into the dark from where it came, “Instrumental” does not want for vocals and stands out as one of the better tracks on a short but embarrassingly good EP. This EP is it. It’s the nail in the coffin on the issue as far as I’m
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