The latest release by the Vinyl Communications label is "Garden of Delights," the debut album by San Diego's own Night Soil Man.
And, as is true of most bands on the Vinyl Communications roster, the lyrics command center stage--with singer-songwriter-guitarist Rosebud's words of wisdom elevating the quartet above generic punk-metal status.
Her lyrics address a range of social issues.
On "Rape the Mother," she warns of impending ecological doom:
"The children of the earth would bring the Mother to her knees/And strip her of her beauty, throw her naked body into poisoned seas/Run wild/While tearing down her mountain breasts to suckle dry the golden milky source/And spread apart her valleys wider till she splits asunder from her very core. . . ./Yes, long before the reigning forests turn to deserts and then the deserts are no more/So many moons before the last lion roars its solitary roar/Rape the Mother/Rape her good/Run wild, run free. . . ./Mama gonna have the last laugh, look out."
"I write from experience," Rosebud said. "When I look around me, I see old people being treated worse than pet poodles; I've gone to college, I've been raped, but I've also been loved. And if you're alive, if you're aware and intelligent, and if you have feelings, I don't see how you can write 'Baby, oh baby, it feels like the first time' 20,000 ways.
