He's Got Oedipus Rex Eyes (Deluxe Edition)

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1.	He's Got Oedipus Rex Eyes 05:20	buy track
2.	Switchblade Kisses 01:48	buy track
3.	Elektra Wasn't That Complex; She Was Just a Pissed-Off Bitch 01:53	buy track
4.	Mandrake 04:26	buy track
5.	Reflection Pool 02:44	buy track
6.	You Were Always the Type Who Liked to Be Dragged 03:08	buy track
7.	Beauti (Brookshire Bros. Remix) 08:04	buy track
8.	I Don't Want Your Revision 02:02	buy track
9.	Aslumber 12:28	buy track
10.	Poorly Abridged Thought Record 04:03	buy track
11.	I Can't Get Out of Bed 02:28	buy track
12.	B-Boys in Distress (Jandiel Johnstek Remix) 01:13	buy track
13.	Negative Tapes 02:56	buy track
14.	Abortion 05:32	buy track
15.	Life Begins at Midnight 03:17	buy track
16.	Two Killers, One Gun, No Bullets 02:44	buy track
17.	Scud Missile Blues 05:49	buy track
18.	All in Your Mind (Bonus) 03:39	buy track
19.	I Kissed Her First (Bonus) 03:24	buy track
20.	An Imbalance in Your Endocrine System Can Create Wrong Feelings in Your Body (Bonus) 01:47	buy track

about

Written over the span of 34 hours. Wearily recorded within that same time frame. Wrestled with mastering for a while. Made abrupt adjustments. In the end the album sounded fixed enough for us to release.

Shout out to Anthony June for being my artistic doppelganger. Shout out to the Desoxyn Dog crew, Jared Pollack and Chris Cashman. Shout out to the Wu Tang Clan and My Bloody Valentine for inspiring these eight songs. Shout out to the Houston Press for keeping the questionable name of The Illegal Wiretaps relevant. Shout out to West Briar Middle School for a job that allows me the time to create my art. A special thanks to Susan, Sophia, Elise, and Sammy for putting up with the noise.

Please book us. We won't disappoint you. I promise.

illegalwiretaps "at" gmail "dot" com

credits

released April 2, 2013

Stephan Wyatt--programming, synths, basses, guitars
Synthia Segovia--Vocals

All songs written by Stephan Bruce Wyatt

The Illegal Wiretaps are Stephan Wyatt and Anthony June
A special thanks to Synthia Segovia for her hard work and determination with such a minimal time frame. My work ethic will rub off on you and you will become equally prolific.

I need to stop comparing artists to other artists. Have we really become a culture of comparisons, refusing to let artists stand on their own feet and instead putting on them the shoes of their predecessors? Anyway, I don't really have to this time around because The Illegal Wiretaps, the two-piece, out of whatever abstract dimension they're from straight up thank My Bloody Valentine and Wu-Tang Clan for this album (I was thinking the beats were more a throwback to J Dilla, but…crap! I'm doing it now.). Anyway it's got all the workings of those special albums you and you alone know exists: recorded in less than two days, in a bathroom, by human beings who almost certainly have smoked DMT. And this is supposed to be part of a 40-piece prolific-ness? What else have they been cooking up?

Going off that, does the rest of their discography sound the same? Psychedelic shoegaze, static beats, echoed vocals, android rantings, open eulogies to the genres hip-hop, ambient, glitch, and fast breaks. Cybernetic voices preaching modern platitudes, and some dude in the background going wild with the synthesizer. Sometimes it sounds dated, like this was the lost soundtrack to an even more deeply unknown 90s techno thriller. But those moments are few and far between. Is that clichéd? I can change it if you really want. "Mandrake" is the best track because of the following words: meditation, paranoia, beauty and ugliness. Maybe this won't change your life, maybe you've heard something like it before, but this lovely mess of desperate electronica is well worth your time as it was mine. If you need more persuasion, one of the tracks is called, "Elektra Wasn't That Complex; She Was Just a Pissed-Off Bitch.” How can you not love something like that?" Sean Dennison, Indie Music Album Reviews

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Illegal Wiretaps Houston, Texas

Our beauty is buried deeply beneath the surface. Underground artists from Houston. Voted 2013's best noise/experimental act by the Houston Press.

Stephan Wyatt: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Vocals
Anthony June: Guitars/Mixing ... more

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