Hibushibire – “In Heaven”

Starting the morning off with a dose of damage from Osaka’s Hibushibire. The band’s latest pairs a blistering new cut with a couple of covers and a winding, live version of “Ayahuasca Witch Abduction” from their last LP. “Snow Sniffing Matador” is a true Hibushibire crusher, caked in fuzz and rumbling through five minutes of fevered freakout. The band swerves unexpected in the covers department with a take on Peter Ivers and a fiery cover of Trad English folk song “The Cuckoo.” By far the most transfixing work here is the Ivers cover. A song composed by Ivers and David Lynch, the piece is featured in the film Eraserhead and has a long history of finding its way into psychedelic corners, with covers by Devo, Tuxedomoon, Bauhaus, Zola Jesus, and quite a few others. Here the band gives the song a slippery take that sits somewhere between Ivers and the haunting “Lady In The Radiator” version from the film. The cut crops up on a new tour/Bandcamp release, Flashback Stonehenge, available digitally and as a CD-R on the band’s recent UK tour.

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