There is a cult that lingers around certain bands, something so ravenous that you feel the pull to be involved in everything they touch. In 2015, Destruction Unit is one of those bands.
Originally started more than a decade ago as a solo project of frontman Ryan Rousseau, the first LPs featured Alicja Trout and Jay Reatard before Rousseau retooled the band to focus their energies into the new trajectory that they follow today.
The Arizona-based band is now a well-oiled psychedelic punk juggernaut, releasing critically-acclaimed and bulldozing LPs with members of the Ascetic House stable (specifically Marshstepper, Pleasure Korps, Encapsulate, amongst others), 90’s house phenom Jock Club, and more.
Now after 2 killer LPs, appropriately named…
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… efforts like Void and Deep Trip, D-Unit return with Negative Feedback Resistor. The record, brought to you by the folks at Sacred Bones and Adult Swim, was produced by Ascetic House with the help of Joe Cardamon and Greg Gordon at Valley Recording Company, mastering from Alex DeTurk, and mixing from Ben Greenberg (Hubble, Pygmy Shrews, The Men, and of course, Uniform).
Made in less than a month during a particularly sleepless and manic period in Los Angeles, the record is an unhinged and blown-out document like little they’ve made before. The bludgeoning sonics from past releases with this cast of players remain constant, but they’ve sanded off all of the hooks and handholds, offering only sprawling wastelands.