Brainiac

Brainiac – From Dayton Ohio (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:40 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Rock, Art Rock, Noise Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Touch and Go Records

Brainiac proudly hailed From Dayton, Ohio. They put it on their T-shirts and proclaimed it religiously from the stage everywhere they went. On this double album by the same name, is the band’s history unfolding from a new lens, chronologically through remastered singles, covers, and previously unreleased tracks over sides A and B. Sides C and D present a never before heard (or even torrented) example of their bombastic live experience: a concert recording from the legendary Blind Pig in Champaign-Urbana. Listening to this release will not get you Y2K compliant, but it is a fresh reminder of how exciting Brainiac was as well as further evidence that Ohio once reigned supremely weird.
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Brainiac – Attic Tapes (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:31 minutes | 818 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Touch and Go Records

The music of Brainiac ended w/ the death of frontman Tim Taylor in 1997. Offered here is a glimpse into the working mind of Taylor as he susses out tunes and sound experiments in their rawest form, mostly alone with a four track in his mother’s attic. Some are mere sketches. Many never again saw the light of day, or morphed so much they are more like distant cousins of future songs. Some of the more interesting Brainiac songs, like Fucking With The Altimeter, Silver Iodine, or Strung, were elevated from the original four and eight track demos later in the studio environment. Attic Tapes serves as a blue print for how these types of tunes developed. The entire program is stitched together like a distorted dream. Jumping from one scene to the next, it progresses through all four sides in a historically linear fashion, from the very early days through to the final rehearsals.
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