Did a search and couldn't find a thread for this album, so here it is.
YES!!!
I've been kind of obsessed with this since someone mentioned it in the trip albums thread and I decided to dig it out for the first time in a while. So unbelievably fantastic! I've tried a few times now to articulate in this post exactly why this is amazing, but mostly I've just ended up making retarded screeching slow motion guitar solos with my mouth. The best I could come up with is this:
"Julian Cope once described Comets on Fire's "Field Recordings from the Sun", with his usual hyperbole, as being like "like the Stooges gotta deal with the U.S.S.A.F". Well if that's the case, then Half Machine Lip Moves is like the Stooges were forced to conduct a guerrilla war on the States by sending out negative propaganda attacks without warning through it's radio stations..."
But to be honest that is a pretty poor description of the album, and reeks of bad pretentious rock journalism to boot, but I can't be bothered to try and think of something better right now. Suffice to say that this album completely rocks, it's unlike anything else I've heard, it's totally fucked up, massively riffing, every Sonic Youth fan simply has to hear it, and the fact that it was recorded in 1979 completely confounds me every time I remember it.
If someone thinks they can add something better then, please, BRING THE LOVE!