After their fluke hit “Pepper”, off 1996’s Electric Larryland, Butthole Surfers label, Capitol Records, wanted a follow-up. The band submitted After the Astronaut, but at the eleventh hour (with promotional copies already out), the label killed the album. Then, in 2001, on a new label, a revamped version titled Weird Revolution appeared. It went nowhere, and that was pretty much the end of the Butthole Surfers. Now the original record, shelved years ago, arrives.
While fans have had lo-fi copies for decades, this new release clearly displays what the Surfers were going for in 1998. Gone are the cataclysmic punk freakouts of their early years, and in their place are remedial drum loops and pedestrian synth-laden ambient space outs.

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