Blonder Tongue Audio Baton

The title is from the Blonder-Tongue Audio Baton, an expensive graphic equalizer made by Blonder-Tongue Labs from 1959 to 1961; its designer Ben Tongue called the album not exactly my type of music. About a dozen songs had been played live for two years. Kevin March of the Dambuilders and Mark Rivers of the Cavedogs drummed on most tracks, with Drucker on two or three; vintage keyboards include a Minimoog and a Chamberlin, which the liner notes wrongly call a Mellotron. Side one ends with a locked groove and a hidden spoken-word interlude about moths. Taang! reissued it on vinyl in late 2016, not remastered.

AllMusic's Heather Phares gave 4.5 of 5, describing noisy guitars, samples and sweet girl-boy vocals in a disheveled take on dream pop; Tiny Mix Tapes' Jeff Roesgen wrote in 2007 that they are masterful at harvesting melody out of molesting walls of noise; and Trouser Press's Douglas Wolk heard one foot squarely in My Bloody Valentine territory, with songs sometimes wandering.