Len Bright Combo Present the Len Bright Combo by the Len Bright Combo

Personnel: Eric Goulden (vocals, guitar, organ); Russ Wilkins (guitar, cello, piano, bass guitar, cymbals, background vocals); Bruce Brand (piano, drums, tambourine).Liner Note Author: Eric Goulden.Recording information: Upchurch Village Hall.Released at a time when "low-fi" still meant the Mary Chain, and garage rock was largely ill-defined Cramps copyists, the Artist Formerly Known As Wreckless Eric bounced back from five years of more-or-less obscurity with an album that still defies easy categorization. No matter that most of the lessons taught by the Len Bright Combo have long since been absorbed into the mainstream, nor that everyone from Mudhoney and Sonic Youth to whichever unrepentant noisemakers are most hip this week, owes the Combo a massive stylistic debt. Still, The Len Bright Combo Present the Len Bright Combo by the Len Bright Combo represents the peerless merging of pristine pop songwriting and deathless aural terrorism, the most impressive album of that ilk since the