Bonus Beast has been playing and releasing music in their own blown out idiosyncratic style, riding a fine/nonexistent line between woozy rhythms, burnt electronics, and cheap noise since 2008.

Over the years, the project has amassed over a dozen releases, many self-released, and others on labels such as Tusco/Embassy, Placenta, Tumeric Magnitudes, and Ratskin Records, including splits with artists like Dental Work, Vibrating Garbage, and Sharkiface. In 2017 after significant delay, Ratskin released Bonus Beast’s Mental Decay LP. The record comes on like some sort of malfunctioning assembly line machinery marching straight out of the factory and thumping all over your temporal lobe before unexpectedly jutting in some altogether different direction, feigning rest for a moment, and then rising again to violently dislodge the smattering of brain cells you still possess; it’s intense.

This tape is not really like that; instead, we find Bonus Beast in a more relaxed, almost breezy mood, progressing through various movements that are more indebted to classical minimalism and old school electro and hip-hop than to anything approaching noise or industrial. It is still incredibly fucking weird of course: the listener is hit with lasered synths, ancient fuzzed out drum machine bass lines, distorted wobbles of indeterminate source, and pulsating beats that hang around only long enough to get comfortable with before the rug is pulled. Put another way: although things might get a little groovy, the moment you start to nod your head, it’s already too late.

Although the project is not officially retired, this will probably be the last Bonus Beast release for some time, as the person behind the project has decided to wind it down for the moment. They may return some time in the future, although we’ll have to wait and see. Until then, we’re very proud to be giving an artist very close to our own hearts the send-off they deserve.

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