Residents

Roadworks Residents

While The Residents were touring Wormwood in Europe, they had an opportunity to use the SFB Sendesaal studio in Berlin for a day. They had already recorded the show for release, but thought it would be interesting to do a live studio performance of various songs from the tour, without having to worry about the staging, audience, and all the other things which make live tours a pain. On July 7th, 1999, the band and their associates (such as Molly Harvey) recorded the songs digitally, and in February and March the following year they edited the recordings into the tracks which appear on this album. We call it a view on Wormwood from another perspective. The result is typically quirky, having a mix of rawness and polish that makes it quite appealing to listen to, even with the bite that comes as part of any work by the Residents. Euroralph/Germany. 2005.