Sad Pygmy
Psychic Intestine (Lazy Squid Rekkids)
by Marc Hirsh
originally published in the Public News, October 11, 1995
Psychic Intestine is everything that's ugly, dumb and amateurish about punk. The production serves only to make the sound of guitar/bass/drums as discordant as possible, and, with the exception of the so-close-to-great-it's-frustrating "Few More Miles," the songs seem only to be excuses to bang on instruments and yell a lot.
Titles like "Mary Tyler Morphine" and "Acid Rain Coat" set the tone, and the members of the band sound like they can barely keep up with one another. They have the enthusiasm of a band that wanted so badly to record something that they couldn't bother waiting until they became a tight unit.
This is said, as much as possible, without judgment. There are those who salivate at the description above. I leave it to you to determine the value of such virtues.
If what they were shooting for was sloppy, fast and somewhat tuneless music, then I admire Sad Pygmy for being willing to go to these lengths. But I don't have to listen.