Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Reissues from the legendary Texas band's first decade!

Remastered under superivison by the group

Matador Records is reissuing a number of key albums by legendary Texas band, The Butthole Surfers, recorded during the band's strange, grotesque, and ultimately unparalled first decade. All of the records have been remastered under supervision by the group.

The early-mid ‘80s had their share of insane combos. Forty years later, The Butthole Surfers have announced their first batch of reissues in collaboration with Matador Records certain to raise the roof for a lot of people who thought they had a pretty good handle on the outer realms of the ‘80s indie-rock scene. And while the recordings are not the fully immersive experience of the Buttholes in concert, you may still feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas itself.

The Butthole Surfers evolution continued on Rembrandt Pussyhorse, which featured a set of tunes for which the Buttholes' rock-based form destruction was mixed with experimental, tape-mangling passages of many flavors. Haynes was handling all audible vocals by this point, and his mastery of post-tongue dynamism was finally in full flight. Meanwhile, their live shows became legendary examples of excess and derangement, and their music just kept getting louder and stranger and more savage. It was the diametric opposite of the hardcore scene from which it had emerged, which was heading in ever more codified and stylistically conservative directions.