SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN
Headdress (reissue, 2002)
THREE LOBED
8/10
Boston collective’s vinyl debut taps into the weird spirit of the early noughties
AMERICA at the dawn of the third millennium was a bruised and paranoid land, licking its wounds and scanning the hills for signs of invaders. Hunter S Thompson wrote that when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. You’d hesitate to call Sunburned Hand Of The Man professionals, exactly – a sprawling collective from Boston, they always operated from way out on the DIY margins.