Album Review // Blunt Guts // Ogre Toes

Basement Transmissions Records

4/5 stars

Robert Jensen is back again with a fresh rip of BLUNT GUTS. The founder of Basement Transmissions (and former member of Pegasus Unicorn and The Jargonauts) sends us on a new experimental adventure and brings some friends along for the ride. "I tried to push myself to try new things vocally and with my gear this time around," Jensen explained. "I also worked with several other artists on this album that were fearless with their experimentation. It was an honor to work with them" he says of collaborating with local talents like Nary, Nasty Taxi, Andrew DeSanctis, and Anthony Pytlarz. It's a crunchy blend of electronic fuzz, distant echoes, spacing, and witchcraft. An album that the listener can find themselves getting lost in almost immediately, Ogre Toes is one to be breathed in, exhaled, and repeated. It's also an album born out of a difficult time for the artist who personally dealt with an illness in the family that rightfully left an indelible impression. Jensen then did what comes naturally to him, create. Transferring grief and pain into its own unique art piece, BLUNT GUTS remains one of Erie's most creative — and ahead of their time — recording artists.