Watch Death Ravers TRANS FX Smash a Bunch of TVs in "I Want it All"

Olympia, Washington-based death ravers Trans FX are inscrutable because their label won’t tell me anything useful about them. They’re flaxen-haired and look vaguely sad, so I’m assuming they’re all related to Kurt Cobain in some way or were in one of those cults that recruits pretty people. The members were also in Gag and Family Stoned, but other than the Midwest, cornfields and Christian communes, information is scant.

Trans FX are the suicidal stepchild of Happy Mondays and Cabaret Voltaire, with enough saxophone thrown in to keep the death spiral deeply sexual. They have an excellent new album, Into The Blu, coming out October 16 as a split release from Perennial and K Records, two of the best labels in a region practically choking on good record labels.

In their new video for “I Want It All,” the members of Trans FX and some of their pals act out everybody’s second favorite Ned’s Atomic Dustbin song in the wilds of Olympia. If Trans FX couldn’t smugly say, “I don’t even own a television” before, they safely can now. Or maybe they own others besides the ones they shoot to oblivion here. I shouldn’t assume. Anyway, it’s a good and gritty video, conjuring up old SST low-budget, half-serious, all-alienated rock clips. It captures what (I can only assume) Trans FX are about: weirdo pop dance music for angry wallflowers who only dance to hip-hop and “Sex Beat” by Gun Club, future librarians or corpses, with no happy ending in sight, but so what. Get into it!

Trans FX are touring with Iceage side project Marching Church. Be sure to check them out or die (even more) alone.

Tuesday, October 20 - Pittsburg, PA Brillobox
Wednesday, October 21 - Columbus, OH Ace Of Cups
Sunday, Oct 25 - Cleveland, OH Now That’s Class
Tuesday, Oct 27 - Boston, MA Great Scott
Wednesday, Oct 28 - NYC, NY St. Vitus (w/Norman Westberg)

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