Dufus - Ball Of Design (CD 2005) new

This is a brand new copy of DUFUS: Ball of Design on CD

Writers have compared Dufus’ folk-punk cacophonic prog-ditties to Captain Beefheart, The Fugs, Frank Zappa, Ween, Mr. Bungle, Moldy Peaches, Mozart, The Band, The Strokes, John Zorn, Dead Kennedys, Need New Body, The B-52s, Gong and The Muppets. While these comparisons are too eclectic to give a real clue as to Dufus’ sound, they are a testament to Dufus’ extraordinary musical vision.

Ball of Design is a record full of anger and hope. Much darker, more epic, and undoubtedly more political than their last album, 1:3:1, Ball of Design features a more focused Dufus—both figuratively and literally. Dufus has gone from fifteen members to a fit five: Strictly Beats on drums, Rick on guitar, Marko on bass, Lucas Crane phd on analog arts (probably the best tape deck-ist in the universe) and mastermind Seth Faergolzia on vocals and guitar. This is hippie death metal that is changing the world.

On Ball of Design, Dufus choose to eschew some of their more wacky leanings—no jocks carrying dildos or more girl cops. Nope, this time you, the listener, are asked to forget all you think you know, about music, about your life, to “set aside your idiot for a minute” and pay attention to a great rock record.

Dufus’ last record, 1:3:1 (RUSCD 8283) garnered some amazing attention. What the media touches on, again and again, is that Dufus is making music that is not only different, but important to us as human beings—not coincidentally Seth is writing a spiritual doctrine/ religion called the Non-Church of the Complete Disassemblement of Reality, which would make him a guru of sorts. Or as one writer put it, Dufus is making music “that could potentially change a listener’s life."

DISCOGRAPHY
1997 Dufus: our first born        (J-Bird Records)
1998 Dufus: eee*lai*font          (Pro-Anti)
1999 Dufus: revolution            (Opulence!/Priapus)
2000 Quankmeyer Faergoalzia: pip  (Anti-Pro)
2000 Fun Wearing Underwear (Pro-Anti)
2001 Dufus: neuborns              (Iron Man Records Birmingham)
2002 Dufus: 1:3:1                 (ROIR)
2004 Dufus: Ball of Design (ROIR)
2004 Seth Faergolzia (Faer Awae)
2006 Dufus: The Last Classed Blast (Iron Man Records Birmingham)

COMPILATIONS
2000 Attack Records, Canada
2000 Koala Records, NY
2001 Organ Magazine, UK
2002 Departure Records, UK
2002 Olive Juice Records, NYC
2002 Rough Trade Records, UK
2007 Trikont, Germany

PRESS
“Fourteen members strong and phenomenal live.”
New Musical Express (NME), UK

“Like an encyclopedia of so-called outsider music condensed into a Downtown pagan mystery meeting. Dufus’s recent “1:3:1” is the most unironically anarchic album I’ve heard all year. As giddy and inventive as it is pssed off, it’s the 21st-century equivalent of the Fugs at their finest.”
Richard Gehr - Village Voice, NYC

“One minute they recall The Dead Kennedys had they been brought up on a diet of free jazz, the next they trace a finger lightly around the enforced vocal depths of Mike Patton, offering up a sphere of diversity that is boundary-free in its very conception.”
Logo Magazine, UK

“For those who like Frank Zappa but wish he had been weirder, Dufus plays frantic fever-dream folk slashed through with rock stabs. The band has ties to the local anti-folk scene, but Dufus’ extrapolations are bigger and more ambitious than those of, say, The Moldy Peaches. It’s hard to think of a style not at least touched upon on Dufus’ new 1:3:1, but the group’s woozy delirium somehow makes it sound more cohesive than it probably should. Past opening stints for Ween should sound a signal, but even Ween must have scratched their heads a time or two.”
The Onion

“Listening to Dufus is like being thrust into a child’s drawing. It’s capable of changing the world.” --City Hub

“Things to look out for include Seth Faergolzia’s “Celibacy Pants,” which shows fiber art going punk.”
Roberta Smith, New York Times

“They’re making this wonderful, wonderful noise, pure song-making without the baggage of clichés. How compelling, in these unromantic, unreal hollow days of packaged ‘extremes’ and punk rock boy bands. We need romantic, real-world dreamers like this. We need DUFUS.”
Organ Magazine, UK

“Dufus looks at a 3 year old child banging a saucepan with a wooden spoon and thinks: ‘You’ve got something there kid.’ Turns out they were right. They took that saucepan and spoon and wrote a textured and intense opera. Then they made this album. Thank you, come again, kid. 9 of 10.”
Vice AU

“Cartoonishly elastic and spastic vocals are the love-'em-or-hate-'em main attraction at this freakshow, but the double-take they demand also reveals whip-smart pop song writing, intricately clever wordplay, and a truly talented band as tight and precise as they are loose and stylistically wide-ranging.”
Brad Stark - KUSF/MTV  San Francisco

“Seth has an inane ability to make the strangest vocal noises become hooks and choruses. Beauty out of chaos.”
Torpedo Magazine

“Dufus throws a punch that hits that hard spot right behind your ear. Perhaps it has left us deaf, dazed or aesthetically challenged, but it works.”
Tokion Magazine

“An extraordinary experimental rock puzzle.”
Neo Barbaric Zine

“How to describe this stuff??? Sort of like a marching band made out of acoustic guitars and monsters from the Muppet Show, their songs are largely about noise, chaos and incoherence, i mean - and it pains me to say - they really, really rock. There is a raw energy here the likes of which you rarely see anywhere. And...a close listen reveals substantial musical ability and craftsmanship. Dammit. Dammit!”
Ghetto Blaster Magazine

“Dufus are insane.”
Rocksound Magazine, UK

“This is folk rock twisted and distorted into compelling new structures.”
Relix

“The unquenchable enthusiasm and daring of its delivery is enough to give you an aesthetic awakening.”
Jambands.com

“I have never heard anything like this before or since.”
Pop Matters

“Tender calm and epiphanistic lyrics.”
New York Press

“Seth Faergolzia could be the poster boy for anti-folk.”
Stylus

If You like Dufus then check out their latest album:

Dufus – “The Last Classed Blast” cd

Dufus is the most important band I've heard in years - Man in the orange shirt

Dufus has graced the stage with such acts as Ween, Animal Collective, Moldy Peaches, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kool Kieth, Regina Spektor, Herman Dune, Dub Trio, Cerberus Shoal, Adam Green, Usaisamonster, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis, Moe, John Brown's Body, and the Black Dice.

 

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