Unless you are already familiar with, and keep up with the participants of Dunn With Lords and Lady Kevin, you will likely have no idea who these folks are and what's going on. Dunn is Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Trio Convulsant, various with John Zorn), and "Lord Kevin" is Kevin Rutmanis (Tomahawk, Melvins, Cows, Hepa/Titus), with "Lady Kevin" being drummer/artist Gina Skwoz. Uniting former and current members of Tomahawk, 'Last Days At Hot Slit' marks a powerful reunion between Rutmanis and Dunn. Once again, we're steeped in the avant garde. On "Despair," Dunn's upright bass winds around a jittery laser guitar with painfully stretched vocals and Gina's scatter-drumming filling in the cracks. This is only a taste of what's to come, in blistering chaotic noise. The noise music here is obviously improvisational, and the lyrics, likewise, where there are any. Forget structure....that's out the window. Absolutely insane segments are juxtaposed with sort of calm and quiet ones, like on "Humanity One."

It seemed like something closer to a song on the medium slow title track, but sounds as if the Mothers of Invention all got drumk and were forced to play in a seamy motel room. Other tracks sound like ideas thrown against the wall with plenty of grit, grime and mud, just to see what sticks. Some of this sounds a bit like Captain Beefheart, like on "Shape" ("Oh yeah, did you ever see a one-eyed woman cry...") but not enough to maintain much interest. The last track, "Indifference" is very different than the others, being a sparkling synthy affair with the word "Indifference" repeated over and over again. Way too long at 4:38 but at this point it hardly seems to matter. This album will likely sell well to fans of the band members, but be warned: this isn't anything like Tomahawk, Melvins, Cows, Mr. Bungle, or any of the other bands these folks were involved in. If any lesser-knowns put this out, it would assuredly have been ignored. Copies of the colored spatter vinyl already sold out, but a few copies of the pink remain.