TREE BLOOD

City Pages named this compilation "The Best Local Compilation of 2015." 11 Minneapolis bands, 11 unreleased songs. This is the greatest compilation of all-time. No hyperbole. 

"Twin Cities label Forged Artifacts' cassette-only compilation, The Greatest of All-Time #1, is a terrific primer on the current crop of underground excellence. This is punk bliss, from garage rockers France Camp's spastic burst of "No Love" to Rupert Angeleyes's psychedelic fuzz on "One Bong Rip From Heaven," and the rest of the way through. With jams from Frankie Teardrop, Tree Blood, Kitten Forever, Teenage Moods, Some Pulp, and others, this is undisputed proof that the venerable Twin Cities rock scene is currently kicking and screaming." - City Pages, 2015

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Tree Blood hail from Minneapolis, a city long revered as the humble home of some of the most influential underground music scenes in the U.S. These days, Minneapolis is increasingly affiliated with emergent alternative rap, but there’s still a distinct, historically reverent rock movement curated in part by the small but authoritative label Forged Artifacts. Tree Blood are a three-piece who make the kind of declarative noise-punk that wouldn’t sound out of place if it were to enter a wormhole and land itself in the mid-’80s. “I Want You To Cry” is the debut single off of their forthcoming debut LP, I Am A Disgusting Pig, and it follows the band’s three companion EP’s First, Second, and Third, which were all released in 2014. Tree Blood recorded each side of the full-length directly onto tape, live in their practice space, which makes a whole lot of sense when you listen to “I Want You To Cry” — it has the same spontaneous propulsion of a live show without any of the fussy revisions that tend to flatten this particular brand of tumultuous noise. - James Rettig, Stereogum

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