HUMAN SWITCHBOARD - Who's Landing In My Hangar? Anthology 1977-1984
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 10:30AM
soundscapes in Punk, Reissue

If you threw Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, and Question Mark & The Mysterians into a sonic blender, the odds are good you'd get Ohio's Human Switchboard, a forgotten yet great garage-y punk band. This overdue reissue combines their sole studio album with a few of their rough 'n' tough early singles.

"The greatest thing about Who’s Landing In My Hangar? Anthology 1977-1984 is, as it should be, the music. The album itself offers the greatest gems. Opener "(Say No To) Saturday’s Girl" suggests the sultry-sarcastic vocal and keys-driven sound of Blondie’s prime. The title track is perhaps the most characteristic cut, evoking the nervy funk of Talking Heads before launching into an organ-buoyed chorus that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Reigning Sound platter...Like New Jersey’s Feelies, at roughly the same time, the Ohio-bred Human Switchboard took the Velvet Underground’s template and made it something new, interesting, and far removed from the gritty urban setting that defined the Velvets and Lou Reed." - Paste

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