They Live In My Head

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Bush Tetras have made punk music at the fringes for over four decades. Flashes of reggae, bursts of noise, guitars that rattle, shake

and snake, born out of a gutter behind CBGBs. Over the years they

have respawned time and time again, contorting their sound, tweaking the vision, remaining singular and indispensable.

In the late 2010s the group-Pat Place, Cynthia Sley, and Dee

Pop-reformed again, releasing an EP, Take the Fall, in 2018. It

was their first offering of new music in over a decade. A few years

later in, 2021, they released a career spanning box set called

Rhythm and Paranoia. The New York Times called the box set an

artifact that "proves for decades [that Bush Tetras] continued to

evolve in surprising yet intuitive directions." Around the same time,

the band began working on a full length record, writing sessions

during the pandemic over Zoom. Right before the release of the

box set, beloved drummer Dee Pop passed away. Determined to

complete the record to honor his memory, the Tetras went into the

studio to finish what they'd started, once the timing was right. They

brought in a new drummer, Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, who also

served as producer. Enter They Live in My Head.

The band's 3rd official LP (a misleading fact when viewed alongside

a catalog as expansive as it is influential), They Live in My Head is a

collection of songs that sometimes reflect on the past and sometimes reckon with our current reality. From "Ghosts of People, " on

which Pat Place's legendary guitar meanders through closed doors

and portals, to the scorching "2020 Vision, " a matter-of-fact call

to arms to get on the streets and get something done, the album

addresses new and old, in both abstract and specific terms. But

whether they're looking forward or backward, Bush Tetras have

always been a political band, a band that calls out all kinds of

bullshit. And, in that sense, They Live in My Head is absolutely no

exception.