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Reduced price due to cover being vg

Original 1981 press with insert

Kräldjursanstalten (The Reptile iIstitute) was an avantgarde act which was hard to put a label on. The arrived in the Swedish punk wave and were played on the popular Ny Våg radio programme, dedicated to punk and the music that grew out of that scene. However most listeners couldn’t stand them due to the complexity of the music, something that punk wasnt. Inspired by Captain Beefheart, the trio played such avantgarde and complex music that had a hard time to find its fans as they were neither progg or punk enough. UK magazine The Wire mentioned them as the band that best were conjuring up the spirit of Captain Beefheart. Or, in the words of Beefheart biographer Mike Barnes: Few have been able to harness the forces he unleashed and decontextualize them into a new, individual take on his legacy – into a new art-form. Sweden’s astonishing Kräldjursanstalten […] were an exception. The spastic reconstructed music came into full bloom on their 1981 album Voodoo Boogie. Here avant-garde, heavy rock, punk, absurd humor meet and the result is one of the most intriguing albums of the era.

Track list:
1. Hon Fångade Min Blick
2. Breda Räfflade Gummidäck
3. Voodooboogie
4. Att Ta Det Kallt
5. Det Enda Raka?
6. Minst Värst
7. Ibland Om Vardagarna
8. Den Stora Coupe-Finalen