Fluid Waffle - s/t ep (1987, Amok)

I picked this one up a good ten years or so ago in the vinyl basement of CD Cat in Toronto (the one on Queen Street W. that actually had a cat roaming the store.  Pity that place is gone, but I digress).  It was a $1 bin find, and by and large I treated it as such.  Listened to it once and was somewhat indifferent to it, so on the shelf it sat for a decade.  Pulled it out of retirement for this entry, and although I still find it a tad non-descript, it made a better impression on me the second spin around.  Fluid Waffle were a ramshackle, Ottawa-based college rock aggregation with loose psych-pop tendencies (check out the Farfisa organ proliferating "Odd Man Out").  Overall, vaguely reminiscent of Camper Van Beethoven, albeit bearing a fraction of the irony.  The sweet jangle treatment bestowed upon "Very Big Races" is as inviting as the record gets, and in itself is worth downloading.

Discovered a couple things when I was doing my research on these guys.  The majority of the lineup went onto to comprise the much more renown Furnaceface in the '90s.  In fact, this Furnaceface fanpage lists F/W's rather brief discography.  Secondly, Fluid Waffle reunited in 2007 for an old school, Ottawa punk revival gig which you can read about here.

01. Don't Let Me Be Caught
02. Dirty Little War
03. Odd Man Out
04. Every Twist and Turn
05. Very Big Races
06. Cease to Breath

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