Mosquitoes Dropped Their Javelins

Robert Pollard had started his strange non-musical noise tangents before the release of the 7" EP Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples, but with this release he brought famed rock critic Richard Meltzer along for the ride and promised, with that pairing, much more than he delivered. The EP, expanded for the CD release by adding a handful of 70s-vintage live tracks by Meltzer's band, Vom, contains more noise per groove than nearly any other Pollard-related release --only projects credited to Nightwalker are even in contention, for both make curiosities like Acid Ranch and Hazzard Hotrods sound positively tuneful by comparison.

Strangely, only 8 of the 22 tracks here are Pollard's, all credited to the band Antler, about which nothing seems to be known. "Mosquitoes Dropped Their Javelins" may be the best of the Pollard tracks because the band isn't "playing" and it is a mercifully short 22 seconds during which Pollard, in his best high school thespian mode, intones:

WAIT! there’s no need
for senseless bloodshed
the mosquitoes dropped their
javelins and looked on
oh man
far out
it’s king frog