Bend Sinister- Tape 2 LP.  South Seattle in the mid-90s was an industrial wasteland. On Airport Way, there was a large "diesel" sign with the last three letters burned out, leaving giant 10 feet tall red letters that said "DIE". This was the birthing grounds of Bend Sinister, a crucial step in the evolution Pacific Northwest bands the A Frames and Intelligence. Erin Sullivan (guitar/vocals), Min Yee (bass), and Josh Turgeon (guitar) had previously tried out the band names Impatiens and The Bends, playing their brand of obsessive, noise-drenched punk in some of Seattle’s most notorious dive bars. In 1997, they joined up with drummer Steve Kaplan and mutated into Bend Sinister, after a song by The Fall, a band they were heavily influenced by. Bonded by a love of black humor and scuzzy, dirgy, hypnotic, aggressive, punk, garage, and noise rock, Bend Sinister drew from a range of musical influences including The Scientists, Stick Men With Ray Guns, Cows, Touch & Go, Halo of Flies, Pussy Galore, Scratch Acid, Feedtime, X (Australia), Country Teasers, Electric Eels, The Damned, Crime, and obscure 60's garage rock. The only official recordings Bend Sinister left behind were two 7” singles and a self-released CD-R that are pretty hard to find these days. ‘Tape 2’ shows the best era of Bend Sinister: the last year the band was around with Lars Finberg on drums before the band lost a band member and changed their name to A Frames. 15 tracks in all. Import from Australia.