The modicum of buzz
fulflej were accorded seemed to dissipate not longer after this ep and a subsequent album,
Wack-Ass Tube Riff, hit the market in 1995 and '96, respectively. Then again, these Richmond, VA rawkers had
a lot of competition in the mid-90s from considerably more sizable entities that were exuding a similar vibe...say like the Smashing Pumpkins. Ironically, Scratchie Records was a boutique label helmed by the Pumpkins own James Iha and D'arcy
Wretzky. Much to their credit, fulflej differentiated themselves from those Corgan crunch-addled titans by embracing a woozier dream-pop bent, exemplified marvelously on
microwave's most effective salvos, "Merely" and "Parallel to Gravity." Whether they were conscious of it or not, fulfej had some excellent like-minded contemporaries in their midst to boot - Monsterland, Majesty Crush, and even their hometown's primo Fudge. This record's title piece is probably the band's most relatively renown song, a long-winded, Luddite anthem of sorts wherein the protagonist extols on the virtues of being sans a VCR, and yes (you guessed it) a microwave. A nice article on the band and a link to supplemental fulflej listening can be visited at your leisure
here.
01. work in this universe
02. microwave
03. shells
04. merely
05. parallel to gravity
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