Trans FX "Into The Blu" LP

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.