THIS IS THE 2011 EUROPEAN REPRESSING on NOT ON LABEL (dEUS) Records. SINGLE COVER. The cover is in VG+ condition: normal wear BUT surface discolouration on corners, mild creases on edges, left spine is fully readable; for details see photos. The vinyl  is in EX/NM condition [barely played].

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dEUS

Belgian art rock band dEUS have traversed decades of weirdness and uncommonly angular alternative rock, with a sound that's remained hard to pin down and harder to predict since they formed in the early '90s. The lineup has changed over the years, but the band kept their music inventive and multi-dimensional on standout albums like 1999's The Ideal Crash and 2012's Following Sea. Eighth studio album How to Replace It arrived in February of 2023, the band's first new music in years. dEUS formed in Antwerp in 1991 and was originally comprised of vocalist/guitarist Tom Barman, bassist Stef Kamil Carlens, drummer Julle De Borgher, violinist Klaas Janzoons, and guitarist Rudy Trouvé. They began their career as strictly a cover band, but soon began performing new material, honing an irreverent, free-form live show drawing on influences ranging from folk and punk to jazz and prog rock.

"WORST CASE SCENARIO"

<reissue, originally published 1994>

tracklist: please, for tracklist see pictures

LP     NOT ON LABEL (dEUS) RECORDS    ILPS 8028[spine only]

MADE IN EUROPE      2011 REPRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE

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LABEL: NOT ON LABEL (dEUS) - ARTWORK LABEL - NO TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) ILPS 8028

Catalog on labels: none

Matrix / Runout (Side A): none

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): DEUS-B

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On Back Sleeve: Tracklist + Credits

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RECORD EX/NM but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

About the only thing wrong with dEUS' full-length debut is that the band put its best foot forward right at the start with the great "Suds & Soda." A tense, energetic rip with Klaas Janzoons' violin the final touch that sends everything over the top, it has all the wired energy of early-'90s rock, but with its own arty edge. The only thing quite like it might have been PJ Harvey's early efforts, but with more feedback throughout the mix and a fine organ break. From that great start, the five-piece spent its time exploring its own interesting rock zone, referencing back to classic rock influences and jazz pioneers as much as any of its many frazzled contemporaries. It's a bit facile to say that if Tom Waits were a young guy in 1992 he might have formed this band, but there's something agreeably impassioned and rough about Worst Case Scenario which calls to mind Waits' own avant- garage jazz efforts in the mid-'80s. Having songs that sample Frank Zappa ("Little Umbrellas," surfacing in the slow burn of the title track) and Don Cherry gives an idea of both the members' backgrounds, and the desire to see what to do with them rather than simply be reverential. Tom Barman's singing hits both loud, full-bodied shrieks, and low-and-slow as needed, while the band in general strike a great balance between straight-ahead performance and subtle studio trickery, especially courtesy of percussionist Julle De Borgher, playing everything from drums to "gas heating." When the quintet turns in a sassy, snarling performance, as on "Morticiachair," it's not too hard to see them as European cousins of Girls Against Boys or even Rocket From the Crypt. Alternately, for songs like the "Right as Rain," dEUS become the best late-night, last-drink band out there, while the building crunch of "Hotellounge" finds them able to combine the two extremes just so...(AllMusic)