The genre of experimental sound art has long been a tradition reaching back to the early 1980’s collective known as the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). Artists such as Neef or Bruce Licher’s Project 197 were experimenting with this format in its infancy. Inspired by free form improvisation work akin to those artists the White Trash Firecrackers set for an interesting debut. Unlike their predecessors they use an array of electronics, tape manipulations, and sampling to create compositions that range from clever noodling to the beautiful accidents of juxtaposition.
There are no politics here, no clever melodies you can hum and certainly no pretension. If anything the White Trash Firecrackers are bit on the raw side. Their sound art is confrontational and brave. It is industrial in nature but not industrial music. The soundscapes are dissonant at times and humorous at others, and certainly not for the squeamish.