Austria’s BULBUL, perpetrators of the most exceedingly unique, solidly nonconformist, and bluntly odd acts one could conceive encountering, close a six-year gap since their last LP with the release of their hedonistic Hirn Fein Hacken, the album recorded in an old farmhouse in the Austrian wilderness breathing in the sonorous vibes of the hayloft. Responsible for its tracking was the longtime acolyte of the band, Ollmann Brunbauer. Aside from the usual set up of guitars, drums and bass, BULBUL utilized sounds made from “found instruments” such as umbrellas, tennis rackets, bicycle wheels, cooking lids and mattocks, after which the tracks were digitally revised and bludgeoned, constructed and deconstructed, rewired and fired up. Hirn Fein Hacken is a wild ride, an expected outcome from a record which translates from German to “get your brain chopped into pieces.”

Hirn Fein Hacken is out on Exile On Mainstream, the 2xLP version released in conjunction with the label’s cohorts at Rock Is Hell, and Earsplit Distro is the sole North American outlet mongering this massive excursion. Two fat slabs of 180-gram black pure virgin vinyl are joined by a coupon to download the whole album in mp3 format, packaged in a 6mm wide-spined sleeve with partial spot gloss varnish, limited to 600 copies. [Exile On Mainstream]