The Broom The Broom cassette
Spastic, riff-soaked egg-punk from Leipzig, Germany. The BROOM brings us six uptempo tracks with a novelty aspect about cleanliness. While I don’t fully understand the endless smattering of jokes which run the entire length of the songs all the way into the liner notes, I can appreciate the catchiness of the songwriting. My biggest issue is that my tape came with three of the six songs dubbed on the A-side, followed by a long sound clip about cleaning which played twice. The doubled-up sound clip is longer than the music on the side of the tape, meaning the songs from the B-side could have fit on the front of the tape as well. The entire time the sound clip plays, the background is the sound that your record player makes when it continues playing on the run-out groove of a record, presumably meant to imitate the sound of a broom sweeping the floor. Flipping the tape, I found the exact same thing on the B-side, not the other three songs that were left off the other side. So what I got was a double A-side and no B-side, even though there would have been enough room on each side to fit all six songs. You may talk a big game about cleaning, the BROOM, but it seems you really have to clean up your tape-dubbing setup.