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Short Disaster / Curds & Whey 7"

by Daphne's Operation

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Short Disaster 03:35
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Curds & Whey 05:45
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Daphne's Operation, "Curds and Whey"
Growin' up is so weird, you guys. Daphne's Operation (Jason Manley, Bingham Barnes, Thomas Hudson, Mickey Ethridge, who gets a research credit for helping me recall all the bands we used to go see back in the day) wrote songs about it with all the funneled angsty fuck-it of any good scruffy white kids from the 'burbs doing time in the Center of the Universe. They were a noise-rock band who played fast and loose with tunings, with flailing drums, and with most of the rules about how guitar parts go. But if you liked Sonic Youth, Polvo, Superchunk and any other band that ever had anything to do with art-noise scenes or Merge Records, if you liked low-ambition anthems and vocals turned down even lower, if you had an affection (and great patience) for stops and starts, loads of parts and pop hooks buried deep down in your unsigned college rock — all pitched at near-collapse, break-neck speed — well, please, hit this joint, stretch out in this dingy practice space, and melt into the floor with me.
- Tracy Moore (2 May 2013)
www.nashvillescene.com/music/article/13048110/best-local-rock-songs-ever-part-16-jet-black-factory-glossary-daphnes-operation-clockhammer-fluid-ounces

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DAPHNE’S OPERATION – “Short Disaster”/”Curds & Whey” (Mudslide/Bottom Feeder, 1995): Like all three singles above whether intentionally or not, chaos intersperses here with white space; like Crimson Sweet, this Murfreesboro, Tennessee quintet (instrument credits: “pickin’, singin’”; “beatin’”; “more pickin’”; “washtub, hogcallin’”) refreshingly seems torn between being a pop band and a noise band. Somehow, the gravity of their guitars makes up for their vocals’ meek, muffled bent. And though the music offers up no tangible beat to speak of, the B-side, at least, manages hints of propulsion, and structure, and possibly even a song, albeit introvertedly expressed: “Growing up is so weird,” a subdued voice concludes, sneaking into the clatter’s cracks. “Call or write us,” the liner notes on an insert request, “for your next wedding, barmitzvah, hot rod/custom car show, barbecue, open house, Tupperware party, slumber party, funeral, shindig, hootnanny, fiesta, thingamajigger or, of course, board meeting.” I hope that won them a few gigs, at least; I still wish they would have clarified once and for all, though, whether “Curds & Whey” just means cottage cheese. Little Miss Muffet was always too cagey on the issue.
- Chuck Eddy
blurtonline.com/2008/07/singles-again-chuck-eddy-9/

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released November 1, 1995

Recorded by Greg Layne in Murfreesboro, Tennessee - 1995

Bingham Barnes -Bass
Jason Manley - Guitar / Vocal
Mickey Ethridge - Guitar / Vocal
Thomas Hudson - Drums / Grunts

Thanks to Greg Layne and David Palmer for putting this record out. Idaho Beach House was the first cool rock band i saw when i moved to the Boro in 1992.

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Daphne's Operation Murfreesboro, Tennessee

This Murfreesboro, Tennessee quintet refreshingly seems torn between being a pop band and a noise band. -Chuck Eddy

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