{"product_id":"i-cant-stand-it-2","title":"I Can’t Stand It","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrivate press sound poet and Text–Sound pillar Beth Anderson brings drummy tant rum raps and yoga punk to the 1970’S New York art\/loft scene with a tight-knit ensemble that counts Phill Niblock, John Cage, Sonic Youth, Suzanne Ciani and Ear Magazine among its gallery guestlist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe music of Beth Anderson has successfully evaded the pressing plant for most of her creative career and it has taken decades to successfully collect and contextualise these early recordings - expanding her elusive discography beyond the rare and mysterious solo single entry in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarving an unlikely and elaborate niche in the stoney academic landscape which she once\nshared with the likes of Phill Niblock, John Cage and Sorel Hayes, the excitable proto-punk\npoèmes sonores of the linguistic loose cannon known as Beth Anderson first rolled through\nNew York in the mid-1970s (from Kentucky via San Francisco) like a jumbled tumbleweed\nof lost Letterism, face paint and threadbare drummy funk to astonish gallery floors, lecture\ntheatres and loft apartment stages. One thousand leagues under the radar of the commercial\nmusic industry, with a sense of humour that elevated way above her highbrow peer group,\nthe music of Beth Anderson has successfully evaded the pressing plant for most of her\ncreative career, and not unlike fellow New York gallery actionist Suzanne Ciani, it has taken\ndecades to successfully collect and contextualise these early recordings - expanding her\nelusive discography beyond the rare and mysterious solo single entry in the process.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen uttered amongst the type of vinyl vampires that haplessly gravitate between both art\nschool vintage vanity pressings and family funded plunder funk, there’s an outside chance\nthat the name Beth Anderson might muster some vague recognition on account of her one\nand only solo wax sojourn into the expansive DIY market. In 1980 the 45rpm single I Can’t\nStand It combusted into the consciousness of adventurous participants with its deep rhythmic\nbackbeat (courtesy of future Sonic Youth\/Dinosaur Jr producer Wharton Tiers, member of the\nnew wave band Theoretical Girls), climaxing with two colourful and commanding linguistic\ntantrums before disappearing in a puff of smoke leaving would-be fans dumbstruck without\nso much as a label name or distribution contact to explain what they had just heard. For\nthose who have spent the subsequent years on the edge of that same seat, it might come\nas some comfort knowing that somewhere out there (on the other side) there is also a\ncontrasting world of gallery patrons and experimental sound poetry enthusiasts that similarly\ndidn’t know that their regular performance poet Beth Anderson even made the ambitious\npop record. For the uninitiated, the enigmatic Beth Anderson has straddled both sides of\nthe art\/rock fence placed between two equally niche pastures. Hopefully this first-ever vinyl\ncompendium will succeed in joining the dots, loops, yelps, squeaks, beats and repeats! Let\nus follow Beth’s lineage, along her magnetic tape highways crossing multiple boundaries\nin a hope to bridge unlikely anti-genres like “yoga punk”, “ramble rap”, “combustion pop”\nand “form room funk”... all of which were officially neatly bracketed under the curious Text-\nSound movement where Beth garnered utmost respect as a key practitioner...\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finders Keepers","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50531341467979,"sku":"2215691","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/BA_76936024_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728104571","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/i-cant-stand-it-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}